Looks like it was in Centos as far back as 7, and is in base Ubuntu. It’s in 
MacPorts and Homebrew. So, fairly common?
P.

> On Jun 7, 2024, at 8:06 PM, Steve Lime <sdl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> One would think replacement wouldn’t be that hard. It’s pretty localized in 
> MapServer. Is pcre2 widely available?
> 
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 2:40 PM Paul Ramsey via MapServer-dev 
> <mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org>> wrote:
>> We dragged around a dependency on pcre which got updated to pcre2 lately. 
>> 
>> > On Jun 7, 2024, at 12:38 PM, Howard Butler via MapServer-dev 
>> > <mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org>> 
>> > wrote:
>> > 
>> > I was playing around with getting Conda Forge builds of MapServer working, 
>> > and when I got to Windows, I realized we need the GNU Regex library
>> > 
>> > https://github.com/conda-forge/mapserver-feedstock/issues/47#issue-2341018003
>> > 
>> > It is ancient, not released as a standalone library anymore, and causes 
>> > anything linking against it to also be GPL (which we're doing in the 
>> > Windows build situation). Maybe it is not worth the trouble to change 
>> > anything, but if one were to do so, what should be used in its place?
>> > 
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