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diff --git a/vendor/regex-automata/data/tests/fowler/README b/vendor/regex-automata/data/tests/fowler/README deleted file mode 100644 index 55507f03f..000000000 --- a/vendor/regex-automata/data/tests/fowler/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -Test data was taken from the Go distribution, which was in turn taken from the -testregex test suite: - - http://www2.research.att.com/~astopen/testregex/testregex.html - -Unfortunately, the above link is now dead, but the test data lives on. - -The LICENSE in this directory corresponds to the LICENSE that the data was -originally released under. - -The tests themselves were modified for RE2/Go. A couple were modified further -by me (Andrew Gallant) (only in repetition.dat) so that RE2/Go would pass them. -(Yes, it seems like RE2/Go includes failing test cases.) This may or may not -have been a bad idea, but I think being consistent with an established Regex -library is worth something. - -After some number of years, these tests were transformed into a JSON format -using the fowler-to-json script in this directory, e.g., - - ./fowler-to-json basic.dat > basic.json - -which brings them into a sensible structured format in which other tests can -be written. |