Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:87722 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 7548 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2015 20:51:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Aug 2015 20:51:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=cmbecker69@gmx.de; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=cmbecker69@gmx.de; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmx.de designates 212.227.17.21 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: cmbecker69@gmx.de X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.227.17.21 mout.gmx.net Received: from [212.227.17.21] ([212.227.17.21:55227] helo=mout.gmx.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id C6/47-00789-E406AC55 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 16:51:27 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.100] ([91.67.244.142]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx103) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MNIO5-1ZRlbv3xLl-006x6v; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 22:51:07 +0200 Message-ID: <55CA6038.8070807@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 22:51:04 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yasuo Ohgaki CC: Adam Harvey , PHP internals References: <55CA26DF.3030109@gmx.de> <55CA372B.8040006@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:KI42H65Pz/9RQxkmgUxlKXTezI8fA/rSyf0V8LLSrUcOTgZbWzK hb/7nJB4Pdg50zG2mEHVx+TBfV/4E7OYj/TDlBexDASrAMjNn2cNSG5rcPe9bP8M9Y/4hg6 0rl0ZeH28fRIL8EzZxV/Gw6ccUf+on9lds01FvHp6W8FA4bJt/bfw2uAaO1Wbdp9WmSRJfY oN5Be+PDVah57qm+dLzYw== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:ciAMRySpDvs=:JrzKJnMlcbboO1NS5XsNe/ dhe60wq1Jwkrmv7wFvfJv3tByh9IwmpAnno0mkD/1GDYcvtu+cngJ6DWdP1yLeygXacM7GcpK HexogtUacXFXbf51aMDvlFAHK4SGlbb1AV3LOATTIIYrIIR4JS0KCD8Ldtp4QOElaGptloPi2 OR79oSc0J4S63lHLCSv2Z16n6ZCoEkXsjVBDW0104p1dQqkzx10WlabyRCfv4ziTDK3P24h3d OtmwUE4g+ybFIe+JjkaLOaTO+M6xrwOoXNbRlRBhrrzslF8LfT6cxKBA1KmbKo0Yej9is/CAY Fd7TYQ3jOL8r8W3Jf1CE1R4JdbDuxXzCstrM626+swXk/3+SGfH7m4FX0d7ePZITHNaQfG+jG iuJhrCfh5fd1xM1Q5wSmChxuOPtp0x+GRYutz6YGijTxUtd/7CT/HT/n1tVUPhU/HUUceK8om 3bfEp5mqvWPhCUmEfGjeLnFFiKgYunfHZUCnXYDAEcxSDGUHBpTBGxzB9DZ+oA+Q7Jl/+/dE5 g7IvNVSR0FwM9kpCUxJSW5SOjn0EHjCfkqsn067A+CRkWMH0fnGp5x/vDm3fOXuaStJiAUev4 +8NiYEke98NZ8JGLtZ+SQo5gdhITjyCSGd1a3KnupyIskeZypDl418rca+3AFLYiFhCho0l7n 2XevAZyWNqYdMuqvHVwCxijac1HOwqAlsU5cS4Z7hHT2yg6exGXktPXqrZZF2m2qo8jMKnvKn w3DM2T634oUBIEXz8bWyEgqUK5OQR4BF0RUbeA== Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] libpcre version requirements From: cmbecker69@gmx.de (Christoph Becker) On 11.08.2015 at 22:08, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:59 AM, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote: > >> Distributions prefer to use system's libraries. I suppose question is if >> PHP >> supports older systems such as RHEL/CentOS 5 or not. They are used widely. >> I prefer to support them if it is possible/feasible. Features that are not >> supported >> by libs could be documentation issues. IMO. Well, of course we can document all these details, but see, for instance, – hard to document, hard to remember, and hard to implement for apps which are supposed to run in different environments. At least we should try to reduce the divergence as much as possible (i.e. without introducing BC breaks in revisions). > BTW, I don't think we should support very old libraries for new major > release. ACK. IMHO requiring PCRE >= 8.0 would be fine for PHP 7. -- Christoph M. Becker