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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:54:26 -0400
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To: Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Add support for PCRE marks
From: rican7@gmail.com (Trevor Suarez)

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Ah, very good point. CentOS ships with 5.3, so a higher dependency for 3
minor versions greater makes sense.

- Trevor


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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