Re: Add support for PCRE marks

Ah, very good point. CentOS ships with 5.3, so a higher dependency for 3 minor versions greater makes sense. - Trevor On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >