[MapServer-dev] GNU Regex Replacement?

[Steve Lime]

One would think replacement wouldn’t be that hard. It’s pretty localized in
MapServer. Is pcre2 widely available?

On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 2:40 PM Paul Ramsey via MapServer-dev <
mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> We dragged around a dependency on pcre which got updated to pcre2 lately.
>
> > On Jun 7, 2024, at 12:38 PM, Howard Butler via MapServer-dev <
> mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> >
> > I was playing around with getting Conda Forge builds of MapServer
> working, and when I got to Windows, I realized we need the GNU Regex library
> >
> >
> https://github.com/conda-forge/mapserver-feedstock/issues/47#issue-2341018003
> >
> > It is ancient, not released as a standalone library anymore, and causes
> anything linking against it to also be GPL (which we're doing in the
> Windows build situation). Maybe it is not worth the trouble to change
> anything, but if one were to do so, what should be used in its place?
> >
> > Howard
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