RE: [PHP-DEV] POSIX regex

Even in PHP 6 I am not sure it's a good idea. There are a huge amount of apps that use them and it'll be very hard for people to upgrade. Anyway, let's do some more research on that once we get closer to PHP 6 and see what the migration path looks like. We'll have to check with a few popular apps + google code search :) No need to decide on that right now without having more info. Andi > -----Original Message----- > From: Ilia Alshanetsky [mailto:ilia@prohost.org] > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 6:48 AM > To: Andi Gutmans > Cc: jani.taskinen@iki.fi; internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] POSIX regex > > > On 16-Jul-07, at 9:46 AM, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > > Why move it to PECL? I agree that PCRE is the preferred way but not > > having ereg() will break a huge amount of applications for > very little > > gain. > > I tend to agree, unless we provide wrappers via PCRE that > emulate ereg functionality I don't think we can remove posix > regex until PHP 6. > > Ilia Alshanetsky > > > > >