Control: tag -1 + confirmed Hi,
Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Matthew Vernon wrote on Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 11:49:09 +0000: > > The newer PCRE2 library was first released in 2015, and has been in > > Debian since stretch. Upstream's documentation for PCRE2 is available > > here: https://pcre.org/current/doc/html/ Known, yes. > Is there a pcre1→pcre2 upgrade guide for library consumers? I haven't found one when I approached this topic a year or two ago, when this already popped up in Ubuntu. > I guess there's more to the upgrade than s/pcre_foo/pcre2_foo/g in > our code, or they wouldn't have bumped the major version number. Definitely. > Is there a summary of the regex syntax differences between pcre1 and > pcre2? I'm quite sure that the regexp syntax didn't change. It's still — as the name says — Perl Compatible Regular Expressions. As far as I understood it, it's mainly the API to access the library which changed. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
