Author: ph10 Date: To: Thorsten Schöning CC: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] New API for PCRE
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, Thorsten Schöning wrote:
> I think that with the moment you release NPCRE you will surely spent
> some time discussing why little feature foo or small performance
> improvement bar shouldn't find their way into a stable release of old
> PCRE, besides security related or not so security related bug fixes. >From my side, the discussion will be short: "No, there isn't time in my life to work on more than one of them". This need not stop other people
working on it if they want to...
> Quite some projects will already use some kind of wrapper around the
> old API anyway, like pcrecpp
Ah, now there's a different issue. There is no longer a maintainer for
pcrecpp; until there is, it probably won't appear in the new API.
