On 1/17/22 4:05 PM, Joe Orton wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 03:35:15PM -0600, William A Rowe Jr wrote:
>> 4 day ago, you all saw this. 6 years ago, you all started using this on
>> trunk.
>>
>> Don't know what I can to do help this along and honor the library
>> author's wishes for all of us to walk away from the dead fork, and use
>> the maintained fork. It's whatever it is, I'm out of here and removing
>> the backport application branch, whoever 3rd upvotes this be prepared
>> to apply this for us all, thanks.
>
> I'm fine with PCRE 10.x as a trunk/2.5 feature. PCRE upstream have
> maintained 8.x better than e.g. zlib upstream have done in recent years
> (last zlib release in 2017). So I don't find the fact it's considered
> EOL upstream presents any particular urgency, it's still supported
> downstream on platforms people deploy to.
>
> For 2.4.x I would argue it's better to keep a preference for 8.x over
> 10.x so that users aren't switched from one to the other across an
> upgrade - with some new performance trade-off we know about - without
> changing the environment/configure line?
Sounds sensible for Linux to keep the default to 8.x if found where people
can expect their distribution to maintain stuff provided that the distribution
is still maintained.
I am not so sure for other platforms especially Windows where I guess that
people get stuff
more often directly from upstream.
Regards
Rüdiger
