Backport Java 7 Regex to Java 6 runtime

[Abdessamed MANSOURI]

Thank you Andrew for your time and response, we did it, it was easy as
you've mentionned, we will check the license with a lawyer.

2016-11-26 2:36 GMT+01:00 Abdessamed MANSOURI <amansouri at alti-dz.com>:

> Thank you Andrew for your time and response, we did it, it was easy as
> you've mentionned, we will check the license with a lawyer.
>
> 2016-11-24 14:29 GMT+01:00 Daniel Drozdzewski <
> daniel.drozdzewski at gmail.com>:
>
>> Abdessamed,
>>
>> what *sort* of Unicode support do you require?
>>
>> I appreciate that you might not want to disclose too much, however
>> posting a generic regex question somewhere (Stack Overflow) would yield
>> some valuable insights.
>>
>> Porting SDK libraries between Java versions sounds very drastic.
>>
>> Please note that mentioned library uses  java.util.regex.Pattern so you
>> should be fine (I think).
>>
>> Please inspect unicode support in Character class in Java 6:
>> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Character.html
>>
>> ... specifically look at General Unicode categories - these can be used
>> in patters.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 24 November 2016 at 12:30, Abdessamed MANSOURI <lavlozm at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you all for your time.
>>>
>>> Andrew, we have an application which turns of Java 6 (the migration to
>>> Java
>>> 7 costs too much time) and we want to benifits of some Java 7 features,
>>> so
>>> we want to backport it (in our client enviroment), i'm not suggesting
>>> that
>>> to the community (I'm not author nor committer ...), but as you invoked
>>> it,
>>> i would like to make a comment, why does Java standard lib over many
>>> years
>>> was distributed as monolithic lib?, nearly all classes are in rt.jar
>>> bundled with sun.*, com.sun.* ... packages , if there were a jar for
>>> regex
>>> the upgrade would be a little easy (i know that is another subject but
>>> its
>>> the source of problem as i think).
>>>
>>> Alex, Thank you for the link, unfortunnately it doesn't support Unicode
>>> character class, so i think the best solution is to process on backport.
>>>
>>> 2016-11-24 10:54 GMT+01:00 Alex Kashchenko <akashche at redhat.com>:
>>>
>>> > Hi Abdessamed,
>>> >
>>> > On 11/23/2016 04:16 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> On 23/11/16 16:00, Abdessamed MANSOURI wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> We want to backport Java 7 Regex to Java 6 runtime to benifits of
>>> some
>>> >>> Java
>>> >>> 7 Regex features as Named Capturing Group ...,
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> > Maybe this regex library will suite your needs -
>>> > https://github.com/tony19/named-regexp
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > i already read some of
>>> >>> OpenJDK 7 codes and it doens't seems too much complicated cause there
>>> >>> isn't
>>> >>> much dependencies to others packages (java.*, sun.* ...) nor native
>>> >>> dependencies from java.regex
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I just want to ask you (if you have time ofc) if we authorized to
>>> >>> backport
>>> >>> regex according to GPL v2 licence and put it in closed source
>>> >>> application,
>>> >>> and if you have some points and advice to backport it please share
>>> it.
>>> >>>
>>> >>
>>> >> Two things:
>>> >>
>>> >> We can't do it if in any way it deviates from the JDK 6 specification.
>>> >>
>>> >> JDK 6 is very old.  It's highly questionable if this makes any sense.
>>> >>
>>> >> Andrew.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> > --
>>> > -Alex
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Abdessamed MANSOURI
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Drozdzewski
>>
>
>
>
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Thanks,

Abdessamed MANSOURI