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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:53:00 -0700
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Thread-Topic: [PHP-DEV] POSIX regex
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To: "Ilia Alshanetsky" <ilia@prohost.org>
Cc: <jani.taskinen@iki.fi>,
	<internals@lists.php.net>
Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] POSIX regex
From: andi@zend.com ("Andi Gutmans")

Even in PHP 6 I am not sure it's a good idea. There are a huge amount of
apps that use them and it'll be very hard for people to upgrade.
Anyway, let's do some more research on that once we get closer to PHP 6
and see what the migration path looks like. We'll have to check with a
few popular apps + google code search :)
No need to decide on that right now without having more info.

Andi=20

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ilia Alshanetsky [mailto:ilia@prohost.org]=20
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 6:48 AM
> To: Andi Gutmans
> Cc: jani.taskinen@iki.fi; internals@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] POSIX regex
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> On 16-Jul-07, at 9:46 AM, Andi Gutmans wrote:
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> > Why move it to PECL? I agree that PCRE is the preferred way but not=20
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> > gain.
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> I tend to agree, unless we provide wrappers via PCRE that=20
> emulate ereg functionality I don't think we can remove posix=20
> regex until PHP 6.
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> Ilia Alshanetsky
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