6.6 plans and status

[skaller]

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 17:07 +0100, Chris Kuklewicz wrote:
> Would a new and expanded Regex package (Test.Regex.Lazy) be something that could 
> be included in the 6.6.0 libraries?  What is the best practice for getting it 
> included?
> 
> It still supports a wrapped Posix regex backend, but also include a PCRE wrapper 
> and pure haskell backends and work efficiently on both String and ByteString.
> 
> It runs, has an increasing amount of Haddock documentation, some HUnit tests, 
> and some new QuickCheck tests are almost done.

Wouldn't it be nice to use Ville Laurikari's TRE 
package instead of PCRE?

[It is also Posix compliant and drop in replacement for
gnu regex .. as well as supporting nice extensions]

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