On Jul 22, 2025, at 6:10 AM, Peter Kokot <p...@php.net> wrote:
> 
> I still think that Oniguruma needs to be bundled to make builds simpler. 
> Deprecating this part of the mbstring extension will take until PHP 9 to be 
> able to remove it (at least according to current PHP practices - deprecation 
> and removal phase). And in the meantime PHP can be at least built with 
> Oniguruma. Otherwise, there will be a situation where PHP 8.5 will have the 
> option to enable mbregex functionality, while Oniguruma can't be found in the 
> distribution packages (not downloadable through packages). If these functions 
> can be replaced with the PCRE regular expressions, that's fantastic.

I'm not sure if distros will drop oniguruma just yet. It's a reasonably
popular dependency, and decrepit libraries are shipped by distros all
the time (i.e. c-client...). To say nothing of maintenance being
picked up someone.

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