Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:35921 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 95719 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2008 19:48:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Mar 2008 19:48:45 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stas@zend.com; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stas@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 212.25.124.162 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: stas@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.25.124.162 mail.zend.com Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1 Received: from [212.25.124.162] ([212.25.124.162:60512] helo=mx1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 70/BF-29055-C165CC74 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:48:45 -0500 Received: from us-ex1.zend.com ([192.168.16.5]) by mx1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:48:56 +0200 Received: from [192.168.16.221] ([192.168.16.221]) by us-ex1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:48:52 -0800 Message-ID: <47CC5616.8040506@zend.com> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:48:38 -0800 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre Joye CC: Marcus Boerger , internals@lists.php.net References: <1706278209.20080302232134@marcus-boerger.de> <47CB2E9D.6010102@zend.com> <1642796941.20080303002651@marcus-boerger.de> <47CB8107.1090802@zend.com> <1207450994.20080303113313@marcus-boerger.de> <47CC4A9D.1080705@zend.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Mar 2008 19:48:52.0913 (UTC) FILETIME=[9BCDFA10:01C87D67] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Replace the flex-based scanner with an re2c [1] based lexer From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) Hi! > It is clearer but it is not a problem. New features may introduce new > dependencies. Having a dependency on libicu while we introduce intl > and other features related to unicode or i18n. I would agree if we > were talking about 5.2.x. pecl/intl is an extension, there's no surprise that you need external library when you enable extension. However, adding dependency in core that you can not rid of has a lot of consequences (think distributions, builds on non-Linux systems, etc., etc.). -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com