Re: [PHP-DEV] Kill ereg with fire

2014-08-31 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Tjerk Meesters wrote: > Hi Ferenc, > > On 31 Aug, 2014, at 7:00 pm, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Tjerk Meesters > wrote: > >> Hi internals (again), >> >> Recently I’ve done a small assessment on how feasible it is to remove >>

Re: [PHP-DEV] Kill ereg with fire

2014-08-31 Thread Rouven Weßling
On 31 Aug 2014, at 20:34, Chris Wright wrote: > I have on occasion come across code that uses split(), more often than not > as if it were explode() with a literal delimiter. > > If ereg is to be removed (for which I am +1) does anyone have any > objections to making split() into an alias of ex

Re: [PHP-DEV] Kill ereg with fire

2014-08-31 Thread Chris Wright
I have on occasion come across code that uses split(), more often than not as if it were explode() with a literal delimiter. If ereg is to be removed (for which I am +1) does anyone have any objections to making split() into an alias of explode()? This would also be consistent with the join() -> i

Re: [PHP-DEV] Kill ereg with fire

2014-08-31 Thread Levi Morrison
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Pierre Joye wrote: > Heck... No :) > > Or we mark it as dead right away, single release for the sake of it and let > it die. I think a single, unmaintained release of ext/ereg in PECL would be acceptable, but I don't really see the point of that either. If you sti

Re: [PHP-DEV] Kill ereg with fire

2014-08-31 Thread Pierre Joye
Heck... No :) Or we mark it as dead right away, single release for the sake of it and let it die. On Aug 31, 2014 2:08 PM, "Tjerk Meesters" wrote: > Hi Ferenc, > > On 31 Aug, 2014, at 7:00 pm, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Tjerk Meesters < > tjerk.meest

Re: [PHP-DEV] Kill ereg with fire

2014-08-31 Thread Sherif Ramadan
+1 Kill it with fire and throw more gasoline ontop of the fire. On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Tjerk Meesters wrote: > Hi Ferenc, > > On 31 Aug, 2014, at 7:00 pm, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Tjerk Meesters < > tjerk.meest...@gmail.com> wrote: > >

Re: [PHP-DEV] Kill ereg with fire

2014-08-31 Thread Tjerk Meesters
Hi Ferenc, On 31 Aug, 2014, at 7:00 pm, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > > > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Tjerk Meesters > wrote: > Hi internals (again), > > Recently I’ve done a small assessment on how feasible it is to remove > ext/ereg from the project for the next major version. This is t

Re: [PHP-DEV] Kill ereg with fire

2014-08-31 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Tjerk Meesters wrote: > Hi internals (again), > > Recently I’ve done a small assessment on how feasible it is to remove > ext/ereg from the project for the next major version. This is the result > (so far): > > https://github.com/datibbaw/php-src/compare/kill-ereg

[PHP-DEV] Kill ereg with fire

2014-08-30 Thread Tjerk Meesters
Hi internals (again), Recently I’ve done a small assessment on how feasible it is to remove ext/ereg from the project for the next major version. This is the result (so far): https://github.com/datibbaw/php-src/compare/kill-ereg I’ve replaced two instances of ereg with their pcre equivalents, O