Hi, I’ve just released pcre2-ocaml, a wrapper around the Debian package pcre2 (for PCRE new version #2, PCRE2). pcre-ocaml, the long-standing version by Markus Mottl will become obsolete b/c Debian is removing support for the underlying Debian package pcre3 (PCRE old version #1, PCRE1).
[yes, this is confusing.]
This is a port by @tobil4sk (don’t know their ID on this forum): I’m (for now) just maintaining it.
It should be available in opam by now.
I’ve already found a bug (courtesy of @viritrilbia ) and have a fix with the beginning of unit-tests ready to release.
If anybody has any interest in joining in to maintain this package, please do contact me.
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Have you swapped your 2s and 3s here? Surely this is a wrapper around pcre2. Right?
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Ian
Ah, I see: there’s a naming confusion here, and I didn’t help it. Let me try again: Debian seems to choose a name that is at variance with PCRE. So:
PCRE Version: 1
Debian name: pcre2
Markus’ (opam) name: pcre
So the new version is:
PCRE Version: 2
Debian name: pcre3
Opam name: pcre2
the Opam name tracks the PCRE version name. I’ll update my original post, thanks for flagging this.
I don’t think that’s correct, but I may be wrong.
I think Debian chose “pcre3” for an iteration of the old interface (because 3 was its “soname” version, or something). Debian “pcre2” is what normal humans would expect, i.e. the same as upstream pcre2.
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Ian
Oh ha! You’re right! Let me AGAIN amend my post!
Thank you for being persistent in pointing out my error! I just wasn’t looking closely enough!