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

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Ævar,

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

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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.

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.