"brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2021-01-24 at 01:58:33, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> Remove support for using version 1 of the PCRE library. Its use has >> been discouraged by upstream for a long time, and it's in a >> bugfix-only state. >> >> Anyone who was relying on v1 in particular got a nudge to move to v2 >> in e6c531b808 (Makefile: make USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease mean v2, not v1, >> 2018-03-11), which was first released as part of v2.18.0. >> >> With this the LIBPCRE2 test prerequisites is redundant to PCRE. But >> I'm keeping it for self-documentation purposes, and to avoid conflict >> with other in-flight PCRE patches. > > I think it's fine to drop support for the original PCRE. All supported > versions of CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, and NetBSD have PCRE2 by > now, and I'm quite fine with giving folks using systems without security > updates a bit of a wake-up call. I have no reason to believe that any > other major operating system won't have version 2, either. > > So, essentially, I think this is a good idea. Yeah, I too like seeing the world making progress ;-).
