[Development] Regular expression libraries for QRegExp

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

On 11 November 2011 12:32, Robin Burchell <robin+qt at viroteck.net> wrote:
> hi,
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:10 PM,  <lars.knoll at nokia.com> wrote:
>> Our main issue seem to be timing then. We currently have the opportunity
>> of changing API to some extend before we freeze down things for Qt 5
>> again. Thus we'd need something relatively soon to be able to use it for
>> 5.0.
>
> hmm, what stops us from moving QRegExp to an addon (somehow - how are
> we going to do this e.g. with the methods in QString?) and introducing
> new regular expressions support later? I guess it's a bit of an
> inconvenience, but it avoids slipping everything for one feature

_IF_ a consensus s reached upon going with PCRE, would it be possible
to make a new class (... set of classes) using the UTF-8 engine, and
upgrade it later to the UTF-16 version -- thus, getting all the
benefits?

In particular, I'm thinking that it will need some time to get the
UTF-16 port in a good shape, and even more time to get it shipped in
major distributions. Is it ok for Qt(Core) to depend on bleeding-edge
software?

Cheers,
-- 
Giuseppe D'Angelo