RE: [PHP-DEV] POSIX regex

Please read about the decision done regarding this and why it was done at: http://derickrethans.nl/files/meeting-notes.html#move-ereg-to-pecl This is getting quite boring. You have had over 2 years to read about this and complain..and this wasn't the first time with your usual comment "will break a huge amount of applications" about anything we're trying to improve. <removed usual rant about BC> --Jani On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 06:53 -0700, Andi Gutmans wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > >