GNU bug report logs - #47264
RFE: pcre2 support

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Reported by: Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad <at> redhat.com>

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:23:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 22345, 40395

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad <at> redhat.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: RFE: pcre2 support
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 11:22:15 -0400 (EDT)

Hi,

PCRE library has been superseded with PCRE2 project by PCRE
upstream in 2015. PCRE upstream considers PCRE obsolete now
and does not devote any resources to PCRE except of critical
bugs. Please consider adding PCRE2 support.

Downstream Fedora bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1755491

thanks & regards

Jaroslav
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