Re: [RFC] Replace the flex-based scanner with an re2c [1] based lexer

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote: > Hi! > > > > It is clearer but it is not a problem. New features may introduce new > > dependencies. Having a dependency on libicu while we introduce intl > > and other features related to unicode or i18n. I would agree if we > > were talking about 5.2.x. > > pecl/intl is an extension, there's no surprise that you need external > library when you enable extension. However, adding dependency in core > that you can not rid of has a lot of consequences (think distributions, > builds on non-Linux systems, etc., etc.). intl (and related changes) is almost the only why one will upgrade to 5.3.x. There is no core (as in zend engine) for 95% of our users. There is a PHP release with default features which can be relied on. That's my feeling and experiences on this topic. That being said, icu is so common these days, I really don't see a problem to have it as dep. If we were asking for some esoteric library, I would worry more, obviously :) -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org