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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] POSIX regex
From: jani.taskinen@sci.fi (Jani Taskinen)

Please read about the decision done regarding this and why it was done
at: http://derickrethans.nl/files/meeting-notes.html#move-ereg-to-pecl

This is getting quite boring. You have had over 2 years to read about
this and complain..and this wasn't the first time with your usual
comment "will break a huge amount of applications" about anything we're
trying to improve. <removed usual rant about BC>

--Jani


On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 06:53 -0700, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> 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 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ilia Alshanetsky [mailto:ilia@prohost.org] 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > On 16-Jul-07, at 9:46 AM, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > 
> > > Why move it to PECL? I agree that PCRE is the preferred way but not 
> > > having ereg() will break a huge amount of applications for 
> > very little 
> > > gain.
> > 
> > I tend to agree, unless we provide wrappers via PCRE that 
> > emulate ereg functionality I don't think we can remove posix 
> > regex until PHP 6.
> > 
> > Ilia Alshanetsky
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >