Hi Edi,
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Edi Weitz edi@agharta.de wrote:
Sorry for the delay. It's fine with me if you distribute CL-UNICODE with ECL and I also think there should be no licensing issues.
Great to read that.
CL-PPCRE is used in a couple of places for parsing. These could be replaced with hand-crafted parsers, but it'd be a bit of work to do that a) correctly, b) without blowing up the code base enormously, and c) without significant sacrifices w.r.t. speed. Having said that, I'm open to accepting patches to get rid of this dependency... :)
I think I will leave that for the end. I am now learning the normalization algorithms to implement string equality comparisons using cl-unicode as-is. Once it passes the test suites, I hope to move to string collation and then look on things related to dependencies, databases, etc. As I said, my goal is to integrate this in cl-unicode, so if and when I get moving I will send patches either to you or to the mailing list.
Juanjo