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

> 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.
>
> If you force me to make that time *now*, by forcing the switch to v2 in
> `pu`, you will disimprove my mood. That's all.
>
> If, however, you are gently with people like me, offering this as an
> opt-in, so that I can play with it when I find some time to build PCRE v2
> in MSYS2's context, I will be pretty happy, and of course will ship Git
> for Windows with the faster PCRE support as soon as I am satisfied that it
> works correctly.
>
> That should make you happy, too, as you will get quite a bit of testers
> that way. Gently.