Re: PCRE v2 compile error, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (May 2017, #01; Mon, 1)

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: May 8, 2017, 06:30 UTC
Message-ID: <CACBZZX75nvfQft-gjUG+YP0Y-e-=Knm3bMeDWHSUF=Juz9Ua5Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1.1705041328190.4905@virtualbox>

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi Ævar,
>
> On Thu, 4 May 2017, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> So I think if your criteria for working on integrating v2 is users
>> noticing it elsewhere and asking you for it you'll likely never switch
>> to it.
>
> Speaking for myself, my biggest problem with your patch series is to find
> the time to work on packaging PCRE v2 as an MSYS2 package.

This won't be in my next PCRE submission, but I have a path locally to simply import PCRE into git.git as compat/pcre2, so it can be compiled with NO_PCRE=Y similar to how NO_REGEX=Y works.

This will hopefully address your concerns partially, i.e. when you do want to try it out it'll be easier.