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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:58:50 +0100
To: "Stanislav Malyshev" <stas@zend.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Replace the flex-based scanner with an re2c [1] based lexer
From: pierre.php@gmail.com ("Pierre Joye")

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> 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.).

intl (and related changes) is almost the only why one will upgrade to
5.3.x. There is no core (as in zend engine) for 95% of our users.
There is a PHP release with default features which can be relied on.
That's my feeling and experiences on this topic.

That being said, icu is so common these days, I really don't see a
problem to have it as dep. If we were asking for some esoteric
library, I would worry more, obviously :)

-- 
Pierre
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