Author: Zack Weinberg Date: To: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] Syntax compatibility among multiple copies of a
program, using different versions of PCRE internally
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> > 1) How realistic is the above worry? It doesn't *seem* like the regex
> > syntax is changing that much between PCRE minor releases, but I don't
> > know what's planned for the next few releases.
>
> I don't have anything planned, but I don't know if Perl 5.10 (which is
> coming RSN and has been for over a year, sadly) has any more new stuff
> up its sleeve, as I have not checked recently. As long as it doesn't,
> there are likely to be few, if any, changes.
Thanks. (I've read 5.10 perldelta and the changes to REs are very
small.) This means my worries on this score are largely overblown.
