Considering switching to pcre2?

[carnil]

Hi

Maybe this should not be labeled bug but rather a mix with request.

For context see: https://bugs.debian.org/1000078 and https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/11/msg00176.html

pcre upstream considers the older version now end of life and is not anymore atively maintained and encourages to switch to pcre2, quoting the upstream site:

Versions

There are two major versions of the PCRE library. The current version, PCRE2, released in 2015, is now at version 10.39.

The older, but still widely deployed PCRE library, originally released in 1997, is at version 8.45. This version of PCRE is now at end of life, and is no longer being actively maintained. Version 8.45 is expected to be the final release of the older PCRE library, and new projects should use PCRE2 instead.

In Debian the pcre maintainer aims to have the older library version removed for the next development cycle, and so filled bugs to users of the library to ask switching to pcre2.

is this something you aim to switch on as well in lnav?

Regards, Salvatore