On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 08:47:59AM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/07/2023 06:33, Vasyl Gello wrote: > > > Yes I definitely see the bug. However, Kodi extensively uses pcrecpp and > > the only replacement I see for pcre2 is jpcre2 [1] > > There is an ITP bug about it since 2017 but no package. > > > > Matthew, from your experience, is jpcre2 the only C++ wrapper for pcre2 > > or there is something more recommended / maintainable? > > I did the search but found only jpcre2. > > I should say that I'm not C++ expert; jpcre2 is the only wrapper I find by > web-searching. I think, though, that it should be possible to use the pcre2 > libraries from C++ in the usual way that you can call C libraries from C++ > (and the headers have the usual extern "C" magic)...
Another option would be to use the vendored copy of PCRE until upstream supports PCRE2. Using a vendored copy of a library is usually not an RC bug. We do have a package that added and builds a copy of Python 2.7 before building itself after to the Python2 removal, so that would be a rather minor vendoring in comparison. > Regards, > > Matthew cu Adrian
