Re: disabling ereg
| From: | Philip Olson | Date: | Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:14:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: disabling ereg | ||
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On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> On 01/10/2012 11:33 AM, Philip Olson wrote:
>> Any objections? Regardless of deprecation status, this option
>> should be available. Or if not, why?
>
> The main reason is that we are not done removing all the dependencies.
> This is a large deprecation that is going to require the process to span
> multiple versions. We could add a way to disable it, but it is going to
> break some extensions in ways that are not obvious to the user.
Makes sense. Removing ereg dependencies from PHP 5.5 (trunk) seems like
the wise choice, and adding --without-regex then as well.
Regards,
Philip