On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Sander Roobol wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 02:47:27PM -0500, Ilia A. wrote:
>> I would like to propose that we drop the old ereg library and use only
>> a single regular expression library, PCRE. For BC purposes I've written a
>> patch (see attached file), which emulates the old ereg_* functions for people
>> who still rely on those, using PCRE.
>
>We probably have to make a bunch of tests to see if we don't break BC
>with this patch. If we don't break BC, and only then, I would give +1 on
>this patch. Too many people rely on the ereg_* functions, so IMO we
>really can't afford changing any behaviour.
IMO if some behaviour of ereg_* is simply wrong, and this change
"fixes" it, it's acceptable 'breaking of BC'. :)
--Jani
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