[Privoxy-devel] pcre2 support

[Roland Rosenfeld]

Hi!

Did anybody of you think about supporting pcre2 (from
https://pcre.org) as a substitute of the old pcre library in privoxy?

Debian is planning to remove the classic pcre (8.39) library in the
next release (Bookworm) and substitute it by pcre2.

According to the author of both (pcre and pcre2) libraries:

> PCRE2 is a re-working of the original PCRE1 library to provide an
> entirely new API. Since its initial release in 2015, there has been
> further development of the code and it now differs from PCRE1 in
> more than just the API. There are new features, and the internals
> have been improved. The original PCRE1 library is now obsolete and
> no longer maintained.

So since pcre1 is now obsolete, it may be a good idea to migrate
privoxy to pcre2...

Greetings
Roland