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.

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