From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add pcre2. Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 22:56:08 +0100 Message-ID: <87y4elgwzr.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20151029201946.GA8500@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37803) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrvBG-0006Ed-TX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:56:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrvBD-000521-K9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:56:22 -0400 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:25923) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrvBD-00051x-BY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:56:19 -0400 In-reply-to: <20151029201946.GA8500@debian> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel Andreas Enge writes: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 05:13:14PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> This is needed by the latest version of Julia, which I’m currently >> working on. > > Should this not inherit from pcre? Several fields are the same. Upstream considers this a separate project rather than a heavily modified upgrade. I started out inheriting from “pcre” but then decided against it as only few fields are actually the same. ~~ Ricardo