Bug#1000029: PCRE to PCRE2 migration

[Daniel Spiljar <dspiljar@datatipp.se>]

On Sat, 2023-05-06 at 14:21 +0530, Abhijith PA wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
> 
> As you might know, pcre project is obselete now[1]. pcre will not fix 
> any bugs or do release in future. projects are moved to pcre2[2].
> 
> I was wondering mboxgrep have any plans to port migrate to pcre2.
> 
> Regards
> Abhijith
> 
> [1] - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1000029
> [2] - https://php.watch/versions/7.3/pcre2

Hello Abhijith,

I knew pcre was obsolete, but wasn't aware of that not even bugfixes
are made.

Thank you for the heads-up! I added this to the TODO list, and will
inform you as soon as I'm done with porting.

Best regards,
Daniel