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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Kill ereg with fire
From: levim@php.net (Levi Morrison)

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heck... No :)
>
> Or we mark it as dead right away, single release for the sake of it and let
> it die.

I think a single, unmaintained release of ext/ereg in PECL would be
acceptable, but I don't really see the point of that either. If you
still rely on ereg you probably can't upgrade from an earlier version
of PHP so you'll end up using an old release which already has ereg.