Open dvzrv opened 2 months ago
It would certainly be possible. Is it a drop-in replacement, or is there a migration guide somewhere? Of course, patches are welcome :-)
BTW, someone should probably update https://wiki.haskell.org/Regular_expressions to point people to pcre2
and mention that pcre
is unmaintained.
Debian unfortunately seems to have removed arbtt
from its repository due to this dependency :(
That was opened in December 2022, and nobody thought of informing upstream about it? That’s a bit unfortunate.
Hmm, I was just about to fix this, but I noticed that pcre2
isn't, for example, packaged in Debian. So I wonder: is that really the future-proof package for PCRE functionality to use? Are there alternatives to consider?
It seems that text-icu
provides regex, and is available both in Debian and Arch. I am a bit hesitant, in case users use regex syntax of features that are very pcre specific.
I noticed that pcre2 isn't, for example, packaged in Debian
It is though? Since Debian 10 it seems: https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/pcre2
That's the C library, but not the Haskell bindings, isn't it?
Oh I see what you meant. I didn't even know Debian has such granular Haskell packages in general (but I suppose I should have, from the context of this issue about Arch). My distro just uses stack/cabal and calls it a day.
Hi! :wave:
I package pcre2 for Arch Linux. We are currently working on moving from pcre (unmaintained) to pcre2.
Not having any details on this project's situation: Would it be possible for this project to either drop the dependency on pcre-light or start relying on e.g. https://github.com/sjshuck/hs-pcre2 instead?