Re: libpcre version requirements

On 12.08.2015 at 08:44, Anatol Belski wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Christoph Becker [mailto:cmbecker69@gmx.de] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 11:09 PM >> To: Anatol Belski <anatol.php@belski.net>; 'PHP internals' >> <internals@lists.php.net> >> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] libpcre version requirements >> >> Still, I would suggest to raise the libpcre requirements to PCRE >= 8.0 for PHP 7.0 >> or at least for PHP 7.1. > > [...] However look - > http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all . From > those, CentOS 5/6 releases are not even a year old and contain 6.6, 7.x but take 20% of all the > Linux market share. Note that according to that Linux takes only 35.9% of it. Now, say disregarding > CentOS 5 and other rare/too old platforms, the other 65% of the usages are not taken into account. > So how much loss on PHP7 adoption would happen, is a question. Maybe there are other stats, just > operating on what is available. > > On the other hand - as with the bug #70232, is it really worth disabling the whole PCRE just > to be sure one bug is fixed? I would see it as not being such. It is clear, that no distro will > suddenly be upgrading from say PHP 5.3 to PHP7 in an older branch, but keeping as much compat as > possible will allow third party repositories to still provide PHP7 there. This is at least my reason > to say the version shouldn't be raised - as it shouldn't go beyond 7.x at least because of > CentOS 6, and then it is probably useless to do it ATM. As long as it doesn't block the work > towards future, at least. Well, then it might be best to leave the requirements as they are for now. :) -- Christoph M. Becker