Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:31080 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 47973 invoked by uid 1010); 19 Jul 2007 07:26:02 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 47911 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2007 07:25:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Jul 2007 07:25:58 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=mls@pooteeweet.org; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=mls@pooteeweet.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain pooteeweet.org from 212.112.227.169 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: mls@pooteeweet.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.112.227.169 ipx11223.ipxserver.de Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [212.112.227.169] ([212.112.227.169:43818] helo=ipx11223.ipxserver.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 89/00-47202-9F11F964 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:25:51 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ipx11223.ipxserver.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5468DF00B7; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:25:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ipx11223.ipxserver.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (flottensignalgeber [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17564-07; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:25:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.46] (49-120.5-85.cust.bluewin.ch [85.5.120.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ipx11223.ipxserver.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28400DF005C; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:25:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <469F11C3.9080702@pooteeweet.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:24:51 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ceo@l-i-e.com Cc: Zeev Suraski , Pierre , Andi Gutmans , Ilia Alshanetsky , jani.taskinen@iki.fi, internals@lists.php.net References: <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648191@us-ex1.zend.net> <54C4340A-D9EA-4B5A-B39C-B55B29B1B3BC@prohost.org> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648193@us-ex1.zend.net> <469B7FB1.1070507@pooteeweet.org> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE648290@us-ex1.zend.net> <7.0.1.0.2.20070718023255.0dc0eed0@zend.com> <469DFDEC.6020903@pooteeweet.org> <7.0.1.0.2.20070718084427.0e9a4300@zend.com> <4807.24.12.13.192.1184829492.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: <4807.24.12.13.192.1184829492.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by somedaemon at backendmedia.com Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] POSIX regex From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith) Richard Lynch wrote: > Any gurus really offended by ereg can --disable-ereg or whatever it > is, no? So in a dream world, Rasmus would have shipped all the features of PHP 42 as his first release. In a slightly less dreamy, but still unrealistic world, we would have infinite development resources to maintain all the BC hacks in the world. In reality, we have limited resources, so its not about being "offended", its about yet another extension that is redundant that needs to be supported. This is the point with a lot of this. How do we set the priorities in managing the scarce resources. For the most part, this is pretty automatic: whatever people do is what we priorities, the other stuff is left for someone else to pick up if they care. Obviously it's not quite that extreme, since there are several people that are willing to do stuff they do not need (or they have a company sponsoring them), just to move PHP forward. regards, Lukas