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Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 01:30:38 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Add support for PCRE marks
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Trevor Suarez <rican7@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yea, I currently have "7.8-6.el6" on CentOS 6.5.
> 8.10 is too high a dependency
>
> - Trevor
>

As Christopher pointed out on IRC, the distros shipping PCRE versions in
the 6.x-7.x range are also the ones that still use PHP 5.3 - by the time
they switch to 5.6 as default they'll also use a PCRE version that was
recent at that time.

I don't really have a problem with adding a few ifdefs for this, but I
think the low version requirement is bad for other reasons: There's a big
gulf in terms of both features and bug fixes between PCRE 6.6 and what PHP
currently bundles. It's a bit ridiculous that you can end up using a PHP
version from 2014 together with a decade old PCRE version.

Nikita

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