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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Oniguruma maintenance was ended on 2025-04-24
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:08:58 -0300
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To: Peter Kokot <petk@php.net>
From: calvin@cmpct.info (Calvin Buckley)

On Jul 22, 2025, at 6:10=E2=80=AFAM, Peter Kokot <petk@php.net> wrote:
>=20
> I still think that Oniguruma needs to be bundled to make builds =
simpler. Deprecating this part of the mbstring extension will take until =
PHP 9 to be able to remove it (at least according to current PHP =
practices - deprecation and removal phase). And in the meantime PHP can =
be at least built with Oniguruma. Otherwise, there will be a situation =
where PHP 8.5 will have the option to enable mbregex functionality, =
while Oniguruma can't be found in the distribution packages (not =
downloadable through packages). If these functions can be replaced with =
the PCRE regular expressions, that's fantastic.

I'm not sure if distros will drop oniguruma just yet. It's a reasonably
popular dependency, and decrepit libraries are shipped by distros all
the time (i.e. c-client...). To say nothing of maintenance being
picked up someone.=