On 2019-09-30, James Cassell <fedoraproject@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019, at 9:16 AM, Petr Pisar wrote: >> On 2019-09-27, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 05:52:31PM +0200, Adam Samalik wrote: >> >> == pcre -> pcre2 == >> >> Moving grep (one of the last packages using pcre) to pcre2. [4] >> > >> > Is this a perfectly drop-in compatible replacement from a user point of >> > view? >> > >> The user that executes "grep -P"? Not many changes. Usually a corner >> cases that have a different performance or exhibit bug fixes. >> > > As a frequent user of `grep -P`, I'd like to know whether there is any > loss of functionality with the switch. > As far as I know there is no intended loss of funcionality. PCRE test suite was enacted by the PCRE2 project. The same applies to the code. PCRE2 code was refactored. Not written from scratch. Regressions are fixed on the on-going basis. You can read PCRE2 NEWS file (or more verbose ChangeLog file) if you are interested in the fixes. -- Petr _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
