From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org,
"Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Remove support for v1 of the PCRE library
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 21:14:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmtwy29x8.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YAzn0Z+568rtF6rs@camp.crustytoothpaste.net> (brian m. carlson's message of "Sun, 24 Jan 2021 03:21:53 +0000")
"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
> 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.
Yeah, I too like seeing the world making progress ;-).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-24 5:16 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
2021-01-24 5:14 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-01-28 15:44 ` [PATCH 1/2] config.mak.uname: remove redundant NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT flag Johannes Schindelin
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