Re: Convert deprecated POSIX functions into wrappers for equivalent PCRE functions

"David Otton" <phpmail@jawbone.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:193d27170911090331k7ecbe69cl1dd30651273e7c3d@mail.gmail.com... > 2009/11/9 Tony Marston <tony@marston-home.demon.co.uk>: > >> So you wouldn't trust the PHP developers to write simple code which takes >> each POSIX function and redirects it to a PCRE function? I have more >> faith >> in their ability than I do yours. > > If it's as simple as you claim, why don't you mock-up your solution in > PHP, rather than C? Because I can't do that until I install PHP 6, but as I never play with beta software waiting for it to go live will be too late. > You'll get taken more seriously if you have > working code that someone can write unit tests against. > > If your solution doesn't get any traction with the core team, you'll > still be able to offer it to the community as a simple download, just > "include this at the top of your script to fix "ereg*() not found" > problems". That would be really useful to all those people whose cause > you are championing. > > (BTW, the reference implementation for PHP is... PHP. There isn't an > ISO standard or anything here. How PHP6 behaves is correct, because > it's PHP6). > > (BTW^2 - you're on the wrong list for this. If you want to influence > the guys who make the decisions you need to take this to > php-internals, where the heavyweights hang out). I have tried subscribing to the internals list, but none of my postings ever appears. I've tried looking at the PHP wiki, but I cannot see any method of creating an RFC. I have, however, created a request in php_compat in the PEAR system at http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16769 -- Tony Marston http://www.tonymarston.net http://www.radicore.org