Re: Retiring the pcre package from Fedora

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On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 02:24:00PM +0200, Lukas Javorsky wrote:
> coccinelle

This is an optional dependency but we'd lose a particular feature by
disabling it.  I have asked upstream if they plan to port to PCRE2.
Also the OCaml bindings they are using for regexps don't support PCRE2
(see below).

> haxe
> nekovm

Some work, but incomplete:
https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/haxe/issues/10491

> ocaml-pcre

Requested, but not started:
https://github.com/mmottl/pcre-ocaml/issues/25

> perl

Wait what, Perl _depends_ on PCRE ...?!

Rich.

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