On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 18:28, Jani Taskinen wrote: > 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'. :)
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