On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schinde...@gmx.de> wrote: >> So it makes sense to give our downstream distributors a nudge to >> switch over to it.
Some contributor (i.e. me) was not happy with this nudging though. The other day I switched to some branch (probably 'pu') and the build failed because, guess what, I didn't have pcre2 installed. If I set USE_LIBPCRE1 then I lose pcre support when switching to other branches. And no, I don't want to install libpcre2, not when I'm forced to this way. 188 packages on Gentoo optionally depend on libpcre, 6 packages on libpcre2. Chances that a Gentoo user has libpcre2 already are rather low. I'll revisit my installation when the level of libpcre2 support grows a bit more than that. You can nudge distributors directly, probably more efficient too. > ... > > I hate to be that someone, but it has to be said: this is a disruptive > change, and it would be a lot better to make it an opt-in at first, and > when the dust settled about this option and many distributions have opted > in already because of the benefits and tested this thoroughly in practice, Agreed. -- Duy
