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To: youkidearitai <youkidearitai@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV][RFC][UNDER DISCUSSION] Oniguruma maintenance end and
 future of mbregex(End of mbregex)
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From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

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On Mon, 23 Mar 2026, youkidearitai wrote:

> I decide deprecate mbregex in 8.6 and drop in 9.0.
> So I would like to go to Under Discussion phase.
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/eol-oniguruma
> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/21490
>=20
> Feel free to comment.

I am in favour of this, but I think it would be good to have another=20
think about the name of the PIE package.

Right now it is mb_onig, which does not include either mbstring or=20
mbregex, which is what I believe people would be looking for. Do users=20
need to care that the library is called oniguruma, or that onig is short=20
for that?

I think it would be useful to name it "mbregex/mbregex" or something=20
like that. I also think the description=20
(https://github.com/youkidearitai/mb_onig/blob/main/composer.json#L5)=20
should probably include the main function names of what it=20
(re-)implements (such as mb_erg) =E2=80=94 that would also make discovery=
=20
easier.

cheers,
Derick
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