Re: PCRE v2 compile error, was Re: What's cooking in git.git (May 2017, #01; Mon, 1)

Hi Ævar,

On Thu, 4 May 2017, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

So I think if your criteria for working on integrating v2 is users
noticing it elsewhere and asking you for it you'll likely never switch
to it.

Speaking for myself, my biggest problem with your patch series is to find
the time to work on packaging PCRE v2 as an MSYS2 package.

If you force me to make that time *now*, by forcing the switch to v2 in
`pu`, you will disimprove my mood. That's all.

If, however, you are gently with people like me, offering this as an
opt-in, so that I can play with it when I find some time to build PCRE v2
in MSYS2's context, I will be pretty happy, and of course will ship Git
for Windows with the faster PCRE support as soon as I am satisfied that it
works correctly.

That should make you happy, too, as you will get quite a bit of testers
that way. Gently.

Ciao,
Dscho