Re: POSIX regex

Thank you Lucas and Antony. Could not agree more.. On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 19:19 +0400, Antony Dovgal wrote: > Thank you Lukas for expressing exactly my thoughts on this. > > On 16.07.2007 18:24, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > > 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. > > > > I disagree with this approach. The thing is that we need to get a clear > > message out ASAP. This all ties into topics like if we will have a > > unicode off/on switch or not. Delaying these decisions will hurt our > > userbase. We need to prepare them early. > > > > IMHO we should use PHP6 as the clean up release. Drop unicode on/off > > switch, accept that the bulk of all code will need to be rewritten from > > scratch. The benefit will be that it will truely be cleaned up, people > > will still be able to leverage the bulk of their PHP programming > > background and they can enjoy the fastest possible unicode engine we can > > provide them. > > > > PHP5 will be for the people that cannot make the jump. We will back port > > whatever we can reasonably get into PHP5. People will linger on PHP5, > > just as they are doing now with PHP4. So it goes. At least we will not > > punish the early adopters for those that are unwilling to move to the > > new version in the near future anyways. > > > > At any rate .. the time is now to make a decision on what its gonna be. > > PHP6 with BC hacks or not. > > > > regards, > > Lukas > > > >