Re: removing ereg functions

But, that all makes sense and tells me that it is not worth pursuing. Is the regex lib bundled with apache always as part of the core or just included with certain modules? Brian Moon ------------------------------------------ dealnews.com, Inc. Makers of dealnews & dealmac http://dealnews.com/ | http://dealmac.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rasmus Lerdorf" <rasmus@php.net> To: "Brian Moon" <brianm@dealnews.com> Cc: <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 11:33 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] removing ereg functions > > No, sorry, I think you misunderstood my question. I would just like to see > > a --disable-ereg option for configure. I would never dream of removing ereg > > from PHP as a supported function set. It would break Phorum and lots of > > stuff I have written. > > I just don't see the point in this. There are other functions like > split() that rely on the ereg code, and since removing the code isn't > actually going to save you anything as the library is non-optional in > Apache, removing the hooks from PHP makes no sense. I don't think > disabling functions in PHP is a good way to enforce coding conventions. > > -Rasmus > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >