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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Replace the flex-based scanner with an re2c [1] based lexer
From: george@omniti.com (George Schlossnagle)


On Mar 3, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:

> 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.).

*steps in from nowhere*

It's just a build dependency, right?  And one that's already required  
if you want to generate all the internal parsers by hand as part of  
your build.  If it's really that huge a concern you could ship a  
precompiled scanner/lexer.

George