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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:30:40 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] SPL & PCRE as always enabled in core
From: jani.taskinen@sci.fi (Jani Taskinen)

And to be absolutely clear about this: This will happen in HEAD (PHP 6)
only. Right? :)

--Jani

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 22:19 +0200, Marcus Boerger wrote:
> Hello internals,
> 
>   let's make ext/pcre and ext/spl first class core components and not allow
>   to disable them.
> 
> SPL:
>   + influences a bunch of other stuff, and some extensions even behave
>     different whether SPL is shared or built-in, this is hard to realize
>     and understand for our users
>   + was designed from the beginning to contain stuff that is standard in
>     the oo world, so non standard stuff should be moved to specialized
>     extensions like pecl/spl_types
>   - yet another core component and special case
>   - most important stuff could be moved to zend - but where to stop
>   + well nothing in spl belongs into the engine, in the same way that
>     nothing in ext/standard is in the engine.
>     + zend engine has different license - i wouldn't allow the change
>     + there is already too much in the engine, actually we should move
>       stuff out of there - (oops/ouch, did i say this?)
>   + spl only utilizes the engine, it does not influence modify anything
>     there.
>   + we want to be able to rely on SPL in run-tests.php
> 
> PCRE:
>   + used in a lot of stuff and influences stuff like SPL
>     beep, go back to square one
>   + is anybody not using this one, seriously?
>   + other regex options suck
>   + we want to be able to rely on PCRE in run-tests.php
> 
> comments?
> 
> Best regards,
>  Marcus
>