Hi Stas, On 10/15/2017 11:55 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > >> I'd suggest to integrate PCRE2 into 7.3. Will go for an RFC, if necessary. > > Yes, RFC would be nice. Does the move mean 7.3 could not be built on > environments without pcre2? May be OK, but we'll need to make that > clear. There may also be other aspects of the code that we need to pay > attention to, such as changed defaults, BC with old regexps, etc. but > that can be discussed with the RFC. > Yeah, the more i work on it, the more it is clear RFC is the way - too much core. I'm going to write one and come back with it.
As we bundle the lib, it can be built on older distros of course. Fe i test on Jessie and it seems fine there. The impact might be only if some would want to use external libpcre2, which might be not available. Regards Anatol
