varnish and pcre2

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Nov 23 15:36:11 CET 2016


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In message <c881243c-bc6f-375f-bf89-3576e18739fc at uplex.de>, Geoff Simmons writes:

>Philip Hazel's plan is to continue maintaining the original pcre lib
>only for bug fixes, and all new features will go into pcre2. At some
>point in the mid to long term, old pcre might become just too old. I
>suspect that will be when everyone will be importing a VMOD for regexen.

Name it wisely then, ot they will all curse your name on a daily basis :-)


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