Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:45761 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 39392 invoked from network); 12 Oct 2009 17:25:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Oct 2009 17:25:28 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=truth@proposaltech.com; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=truth@proposaltech.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain proposaltech.com from 68.142.198.200 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: truth@proposaltech.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 68.142.198.200 smtp101.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com Received: from [68.142.198.200] ([68.142.198.200:20316] helo=smtp101.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id FA/D1-54920-68663DA4 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:25:26 -0400 Received: (qmail 50314 invoked from network); 12 Oct 2009 17:25:23 -0000 Received: from ppp-71-128-48-90.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net (truth@71.128.48.90 with login) by smtp101.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Oct 2009 10:25:23 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: jWG9jiaswBBOCHlPTWD9zJWRnNyiDJE- X-YMail-OSG: RgeI.b8VM1nqOYxMPZqVNx09xFwszUUyqfXqjS8E8NKQnzEe3ixpWfFxKQa_DJpz4gPgtAAZ25cbIXXTYN01Qm6Gx9Vfbis5vxvKoN_htsqhbdZkL0QdpBlJ8._FZdmiRESgFEK7yjxAFQ3Xax0n3VDAawe3rYukCPacNsahnw29lDn9yWtPbEFCkJh4M0HiNhdjeCahG6LzEmxnwpefW59f58sWeN1AYpeDF0ZzYVw1zs.iO3KuPXo.iP2gd3DIPPHKZj29zPECJIQXcNyVMhOpLsRtlUm2JE8gmS4ucB97mQE_LHHXgOHzFEpzOlbSSTxjX6VGqpJggOOR_RKVmjFTkYFR5Xdw_mA7oYl9UeC6SvIyuz7RVWYqBa0oy7dAvNhTwY1yQiZf11RwAph_ X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 To: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: References: <20091012154610.GJ5179@arvo.suso.org> <20091012160854.GK5179@arvo.suso.org> <4AD356D5.2020605@lerdorf.com> <20091012162227.GL5179@arvo.suso.org> <20091012165734.GN5179@arvo.suso.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:25:22 -0700 Message-ID: <1255368322.17552.13.camel@inspiron.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Why is ereg being deprecated? From: truth@proposaltech.com (Todd Ruth) This thread inspired me to google for a POSIX to PCRE converter. I found a thread from this list from 2002: http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=103625548402350&w=2 Ilia proposed a patch that would replace the ereg library with code that would allow an ereg userland call to be processed with the PCRE library (if I've understood the 2002 post correctly). I'm not complaining about dropping ereg nor taking a position on whether many or few would complain about dropping ereg. I just wanted to point out some past work that might be applicable lest someone start from scratch. BTW, thank you to all who have contributed to php. - Todd