Re: [RFC] PCRE2 migration

Hi Anatol! On 23.10.2017 at 22:12, Anatol Belski wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Christoph M. Becker [mailto:cmbecker69@gmx.de] >> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2017 4:24 PM >> To: Anatol Belski <ab@php.net>; internals@lists.php.net >> Subject: Re: [RFC] PCRE2 migration >> >> In my opinion, the only real issue is that the internal API would change (the few >> userland affecting changes appear to be acceptable). I can't assess how many >> extensions actually use the public API of ext/pcre, but this might be an issue >> regarding the adoption of PHP 7.3. > > Some exts use PCRE or the PHP API, of course. From what I've seen so far > > - The migration is easy, despite the PCRE2 API is somewhat different. If asked, I could help > patching any code for PCRE2 support. > - there's time to rework the API as in the patch, some points can be changed significantly > - From what I could tell, the ratio of PECL exts using PCRE is low. In fact, I can't > remember any, OFC there are be some. Well, that sounds good. :) And yes, I'm aware that upgrading to PCRE2 is actually long overdue, so +1 from me. -- Christoph M. Becker