Re: Add support for PCRE marks
| From: | Nikita Popov | Date: | Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:30:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Add support for PCRE marks | ||
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On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Trevor Suarez <rican7@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yea, I currently have "7.8-6.el6" on CentOS 6.5.
> 8.10 is too high a dependency
>
> - Trevor
>
As Christopher pointed out on IRC, the distros shipping PCRE versions in
the 6.x-7.x range are also the ones that still use PHP 5.3 - by the time
they switch to 5.6 as default they'll also use a PCRE version that was
recent at that time.
I don't really have a problem with adding a few ifdefs for this, but I
think the low version requirement is bad for other reasons: There's a big
gulf in terms of both features and bug fixes between PCRE 6.6 and what PHP
currently bundles. It's a bit ridiculous that you can end up using a PHP
version from 2014 together with a decade old PCRE version.
Nikita