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Re: [RFC PATCH] pcre: migrate to pcre2
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Carlo Arenas |
Subject: |
Re: [RFC PATCH] pcre: migrate to pcre2 |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Oct 2021 16:04:42 -0700 |
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 3:25 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> Other than performance, what are the advantages of switching to PCRE2?
The main one is IMHO supportability going forward.
With the release of 8.45 Philip has finally put the foot down[1] and
there will be no more releases of that branch ever (See the "Please
Take Note" section).
Carlo
[1] https://www.pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcre.html
[RFC PATCH v2] pcre: migrate to pcre2, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón, 2021/10/13