uutils/findutils

consider making onig optional

Open

#212 opened on Feb 25, 2023

View on GitHub
 (10 comments) (2 reactions) (0 assignees)Rust (80 forks)user submission
good first issue

Repository metrics

Stars
 (577 stars)
PR merge metrics
 (Avg merge 26d 6h) (46 merged PRs in 30d)

Description

There are a number of pure rust globs and regex crates, might be better to not have to deal with a C dependency if we could avoid it.

From what I'm seeing regex may lack a mean to select a specific flavour of regex, not sure if somebody already had a mean to restrict the engine to not support extensions compared to posix/emacs.

Contributor guide

Research direction
Investigate how the onig crate (or onig sys) is currently integrated for regex matching. Then add a Cargo feature flag, e.g., 'onig', to make it optional. Use Rust's cfg attributes to conditionally compile the onig dependent code. Ensure the pure Rust regex crate (e.g., regex) is used as a fallback.
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli
Issue type
Refactor
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-2 days
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
Active
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Clear
Prerequisites
RustCargo
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
60