From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_DKIM_INVALID shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC4D1FDEA for ; Mon, 8 May 2017 07:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752709AbdEHHKo (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2017 03:10:44 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-f178.google.com ([209.85.192.178]:34119 "EHLO mail-pf0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752164AbdEHHKn (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 May 2017 03:10:43 -0400 Received: by mail-pf0-f178.google.com with SMTP id e64so28901439pfd.1 for ; Mon, 08 May 2017 00:10:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=3DT6hXnbqsj6C9f4ItNI+ULV7f+mIB7IJUb8ldUNJcg=; b=PKGdsdrkDzUl0Bjmxd5f1frcMRYyj1QKQ7+VECdEcPSw8JkEW+FWyW/266huh/ixOt boNy0Ro3hx09u4C++YKAH5+rRp3FmmRK2O/9fIRTRP2348htEx6Zg2Zqcd+WmCvSxPty 0hBYfcZjoWasZaHcGuYm1sATuTlLnH/p9hrw5jvrxr8BDnVe8TcVgNyOb5qUGMLrX3Wp rce2N/R8l3XXX44E3bL3onQicUEasK0BhlQX7BGHvo6K+/b6VYXsv70qD3wNL8Sx5Pmi 8gb7PX2MGvHjz7TJzY2CDyRIXYtUfWzDGx2/pmgf5h1XYDjSMAeYnKM26tSokthuAi6R gdfw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date :in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3DT6hXnbqsj6C9f4ItNI+ULV7f+mIB7IJUb8ldUNJcg=; b=AqK23fjQbV0tZP3VFfy1CodLbpTF/OdpbJKNQ85OE/EaB61v6YOFcjGGVPGIbmEfWi nSXQVd552M6Wdyjf6QXZsiZNWZ9syyt9yBDBPMlN0zIzCwOzyWBt0/O0Vw0q6nDGMcYS AiFomR1crUcN0qVumMDMKL61hrKEKK86nCn7gYwfeBYGDyXfUsnDuMmEc2HC+ZyaaOWW cksJ7vQSeUm1smRskf4XZ2NzFXaOUKLyAVSFGv+PfKm11q3QfwpLpVdnZIMZCXcAmyjZ ZQl4oOqY7rZE2g9Tvzq4VuwvlV5Q9VOkpjeEEFz+qX8RckCU5l+yhvPYYcPMLG78Bkr8 8/Pw== X-Gm-Message-State: AN3rC/7l2VDc+IlNfz/QL5XUjjB0rSognf2AEDFiFx51xgfadpYuxqGE nbdZb/H25r+TQg== X-Received: by 10.84.232.71 with SMTP id f7mr49451947pln.168.1494227442440; Mon, 08 May 2017 00:10:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([2620:0:1000:8622:2823:d4da:fd9a:464a]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l3sm23056342pfj.130.2017.05.08.00.10.41 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 08 May 2017 00:10:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Git Mailing List , =?utf-8?B?Tmd1eeG7hW4gVGjDoWkgTmfhu41j?= Duy Subject: Re: PCRE v2 compile error, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (May 2017, #01; Mon, 1) References: Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 16:10:41 +0900 In-Reply-To: (=?utf-8?B?IsOGdmFyIEFybmZqw7Zyw7A=?= Bjarmason"'s message of "Mon, 8 May 2017 08:30:56 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: > This won't be in my next PCRE submission, but I have a path locally to > simply import PCRE into git.git as compat/pcre2, so it can be compiled > with NO_PCRE=Y similar to how NO_REGEX=Y works. > > This will hopefully address your concerns partially, i.e. when you do > want to try it out it'll be easier. Eek, please don't. Until pcre2 becomes _so_ stable that all reasonable distros give choice to the end-users to install it easily in a packaged form, such a "not a fork, but a copy" will be a moving target that I'd rather not to have in compat/. IOW, our compat/$pkg should be a last resort to help those on distros that are so hard to convince to carry the version/variant of $pkg we would like to use.