From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Embedded modifiers in the regex engine Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 18:00:25 +0200 Message-ID: <83povgakpy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ziupinhq.fsf@secretsauce.net> <83oab4g407.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvqnet3t.fsf@gnu.org> <87wpppioxi.fsf@secretsauce.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1456675268 26984 80.91.229.3 (28 Feb 2016 16:01:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 16:01:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dima Kogan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 28 17:00:53 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3m8-0007KN-SG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:00:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59529 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3m8-0001Hg-8t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 11:00:52 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44793) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3m0-0001Fp-P6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 11:00:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3lx-0003uY-Dy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 11:00:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37781) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3lx-0003uR-50; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 11:00:41 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3249 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aa3lw-0006Ou-1B; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 11:00:40 -0500 In-reply-to: <87wpppioxi.fsf@secretsauce.net> (message from Dima Kogan on Sat, 27 Feb 2016 17:50:01 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200763 Archived-At: > From: Dima Kogan > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 17:50:01 -0800 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: Dima Kogan > >> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 23:19:32 -0800 > >> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > >> > >> I'm looking at importing the regex test suite in glibc to emacs. > >> Would this be possible even if the copyright holders of those tests > >> haven't assigned their work to the fsf? These are tests and not part > >> of emacs on some level, so would that make it ok? > > > > If the test suite is GPL v3+, I don't think there should be a > > problem > > If only. Some of the test cases in glibc are their own (LGPL) and some > others came from other projects (boost, BSD, MIT). To be clear, I'm > talking about the test cases themselves, not the code that evaluates the > tests. Does this mean we need to write our own test if we want them? Not sure. Probably someone like Richard needs to look closer at the licenses. > >From the earlier emails it wasn't obvious if there was already a > long-term plan to replace the regex engine. Is there such a plan? What > do we hope to move to? We have plans, yes, but AFAIK no one is working on that.