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Re: [RFC PATCH] pcre: migrate to pcre2


From: 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



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