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Bug 782080 - Port to pcre2
Port to pcre2
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 755693
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-05-02 16:28 UTC by Jeremy Bicha
Modified: 2017-05-02 17:05 UTC
See Also:
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Description Jeremy Bicha 2017-05-02 16:28:59 UTC 
pcre2 is the new version of pcre. vte and gnome-terminal switched to it in GNOME 3.22. It would be nice if glib used the same version of pcre.

In the original release of pcre2 in Jan 2015, the author says this is not just a drastic update to the original pcre but a "new project". He felt free to change names and options.
https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20150105.162835.0666407a.en.html

Some discussion of how it's different:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/pcre2.html
Comment 1 Jeremy Bicha 2017-05-02 16:32:47 UTC 
Possible duplicate of bug 755693
Comment 2 Philip Withnall 2017-05-02 17:05:46 UTC 
(In reply to Jeremy Bicha from comment #1)
> Possible duplicate of bug 755693

Yup. Let’s move the discussion over there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 755693 ***