Making ereg extension optional ?

hi,

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Arnaud Le Blanc
arnaud.lb@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

PHP now builds and works without ereg, is it planed to make it
optional ?

It is planed to drop it so I suppose optional can be a first step. I
remember something about adding a BC layer using pcre, I'm not sure if
it is done yet. However I would not do it in 5.x.

I think Andrei was pondering doing such a BC layer for PHP6, but I
dont think this has been done yet. I think there were still
discussions about if its feasible at all. This also means that there
were discussions about if to even drop it, but I think we agreed on
dropping it in the end, so I guess using ereg should throw an
E_DEPRECATED in 5.3?

I am not sure if we should make it optional in 5.3 though.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org

hi,

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Arnaud Le Blanc
arnaud.lb@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

PHP now builds and works without ereg, is it planed to make it
optional ?

It is planed to drop it so I suppose optional can be a first step. I
remember something about adding a BC layer using pcre, I'm not sure if
it is done yet. However I would not do it in 5.x.

I think Andrei was pondering doing such a BC layer for PHP6, but I
dont think this has been done yet. I think there were still
discussions about if its feasible at all. This also means that there
were discussions about if to even drop it, but I think we agreed on
dropping it in the end, so I guess using ereg should throw an
E_DEPRECATED in 5.3?

I am not sure if we should make it optional in 5.3 though.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org