On Tue, 22 Jul 2025 at 15:09, Calvin Buckley <cal...@cmpct.info> wrote:
> 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. Here it's marked as deprecated and has expiration date: https://www.freshports.org/devel/oniguruma/ Well, of course not anywhere soon and everywhere, but eventually probably.
