Re: POSIX regex

Andi Gutmans wrote:

Hmm I don't quite understand what bad code vs. good code plays here. Wordpress is one of the most popular applications out there so it's got huge value to our community. I bet there's a huge amount of PHP applications who's source code is of the same quality or worse. Anyway, the issues I have seen would also be relevant to what you call "good" code but again, when it comes to compatibility, I don't quite know why that will play a big role.

Bad good in the sense its messy. But what I was going at is that I find your proposed list good with the exception of SugarCRM. It might be good to also include a php5 only app, so that we have a good idea of how messy code, fairly procedural, E_STRICT complaint etc code ports to PHP6 unicode==off.

I am talking about porting to both unicode_semantics=off and on. This will give us a good understanding of the difference of the modes and where we're at. I bet most people who are voicing their opinions have actually not tried to write a sizeable application with PHP 6 and also tried to run an existing one on PHP 6 (unciode_semantics=on). I can also do some performance testing in our

ok .. this makes this quite a large undertaking indeed. regards, Lukas