On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> wrote: > 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.
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.
