From: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Remove support for v1 of the PCRE library
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 03:21:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YAzn0Z+568rtF6rs@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210124015833.2753-2-avarab@gmail.com>
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On 2021-01-24 at 01:58:33, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Remove support for using version 1 of the PCRE library. Its use has
> been discouraged by upstream for a long time, and it's in a
> bugfix-only state.
>
> Anyone who was relying on v1 in particular got a nudge to move to v2
> in e6c531b808 (Makefile: make USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease mean v2, not v1,
> 2018-03-11), which was first released as part of v2.18.0.
>
> With this the LIBPCRE2 test prerequisites is redundant to PCRE. But
> I'm keeping it for self-documentation purposes, and to avoid conflict
> with other in-flight PCRE patches.
I think it's fine to drop support for the original PCRE. All supported
versions of CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, and NetBSD have PCRE2 by
now, and I'm quite fine with giving folks using systems without security
updates a bit of a wake-up call. I have no reason to believe that any
other major operating system won't have version 2, either.
So, essentially, I think this is a good idea.
--
brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them)
Houston, Texas, US
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-24 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-24 1:58 [PATCH 1/2] config.mak.uname: remove redundant NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT flag Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-01-24 1:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] Remove support for v1 of the PCRE library Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-01-24 3:21 ` brian m. carlson [this message]
2021-01-24 5:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-28 15:44 ` [PATCH 1/2] config.mak.uname: remove redundant NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT flag Johannes Schindelin
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