Re: disabling ereg
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:55:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: disabling ereg | ||
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We can only do it for a 6.x, not for a 5.5. So I would not do it too
early in the process.
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Philip Olson <philip@roshambo.org> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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Pierre
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