Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
Eek, please don't. Until pcre2 becomes _so_ stable that all reasonable distros give choice to the end-users to install it easily in a packaged form, such a "not a fork, but a copy" will be a moving target that I'd rather not to have in compat/. IOW, our compat/$pkg should be a last resort to help those on distros that are so hard to convince to carry the version/variant of $pkg we would like to use.
