On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 03:35:15PM -0600, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > 4 day ago, you all saw this. 6 years ago, you all started using this on trunk. > > Don't know what I can to do help this along and honor the library > author's wishes for all of us to walk away from the dead fork, and use > the maintained fork. It's whatever it is, I'm out of here and removing > the backport application branch, whoever 3rd upvotes this be prepared > to apply this for us all, thanks.
I'm fine with PCRE 10.x as a trunk/2.5 feature. PCRE upstream have maintained 8.x better than e.g. zlib upstream have done in recent years (last zlib release in 2017). So I don't find the fact it's considered EOL upstream presents any particular urgency, it's still supported downstream on platforms people deploy to. For 2.4.x I would argue it's better to keep a preference for 8.x over 10.x so that users aren't switched from one to the other across an upgrade - with some new performance trade-off we know about - without changing the environment/configure line? Regards, Joe
