From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 270CA1F934 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 05:16:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726096AbhAXFPe (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:15:34 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com ([64.147.108.71]:64364 "EHLO pb-smtp2.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725562AbhAXFP1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:15:27 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp2.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E11A14EE; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:14:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=RZG4JWgYTd/0 r2KSXJjg+zJk3tU=; b=BmO4kCUoQPiYnw45b2MVMU8bUgTMvyI/Ysq/smJOBccV Q1von2bSRemyTsbPj0oLkHp/hX4DNHVkOboy6V6+MOoYFSQwSv35H73ClBdW6vyb jCxuEIPKp/kgIkvCO71+wrCQLhNBUu/sk6cDZTiBP46Q9HyF2bVmlXdVAno0tgU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=qoRmkj X3aFYqddqNDRfymnwonLrNCKmeyJ4+kqkOr1znnVOHLQK09ho8H/ytVaxRtRnqyW KwxfRz1s1FSobS496H6LdT6ftOMy4F3WB0gcjUikqF2cj53Lmm+lN4zNplkw9C9b ZyDad44I41zipkfbY8tv+zOhzcUvJtAQKFeSg= Received: from pb-smtp2.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F388DA14EC; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:14:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.196.36.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp2.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 70485A14EB; Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:14:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: "brian m. carlson" Cc: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason , git@vger.kernel.org, Carlo Marcelo Arenas =?utf-8?Q?Bel=C3=B3n?= Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Remove support for v1 of the PCRE library References: <20210124015833.2753-1-avarab@gmail.com> <20210124015833.2753-2-avarab@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 21:14:43 -0800 In-Reply-To: (brian m. carlson's message of "Sun, 24 Jan 2021 03:21:53 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1.90 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 11FEBB2C-5E03-11EB-81B7-74DE23BA3BAF-77302942!pb-smtp2.pobox.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org "brian m. carlson" writes: > On 2021-01-24 at 01:58:33, =C3=86var Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0 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. >>=20 >> Anyone who was relying on v1 in particular got a nudge to move to v2 >> in e6c531b808 (Makefile: make USE_LIBPCRE=3DYesPlease mean v2, not v1, >> 2018-03-11), which was first released as part of v2.18.0. >>=20 >> 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 securit= y > 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 ;-).