[Pkg-julia-devel] Instead of waiting for PCRE2 for Julia 0.4.x

[Peter Colberg]

Hi Graham,

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 07:49:30AM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Do you think it would be feasible to revert upstream's 'Upgrade to
> PCRE2 10.10' patch in the Debian packaging in order to use Julia with
> PCRE 8.3x (src:pcre3 in Debian)?

Unfortunately simply reverting commit afa1404 will not suffice, since
the pcre module has undergone further changes and now depends on new
functions available only in PCRE2.

# git log -p -w v0.4.1 base/pcre.jl

I guess it is best to work together to get PCRE2 into Debian.

Peter