[MapServer-dev] GNU Regex Replacement?

Paul Ramsey pramsey at cleverelephant.ca
Fri Jun 7 20:31:24 PDT 2024


Looks like it was in Centos as far back as 7, and is in base Ubuntu. It’s in MacPorts and Homebrew. So, fairly common?
P.

> On Jun 7, 2024, at 8:06 PM, Steve Lime <sdlime at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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?
>> > 
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