Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am very tempted though to support them in parallel, if only for ease > of performance testing and to be able to roll out support for > grep.patternType=perl meaning pcre1 for now, but add a > grep.patternType=pcre2 for testing (and make grep.patternType=pcre1 > work, with grep.patternType=pcre being synonymous with > grep.patternType=perl, i.e. whatever the default is). Perhaps. As long as the code doesn't get too ugly, I think we would survive ;-)