[pmwiki-devel] preg_replace /e depreciated in php 5.5

[michael paulukonis]

There are thousands of person-hours involved in the coding of PmWiki core,
not to mention the extensions.
Rewriting PmWiki in another language means all of that coding testing and
debugging has to be replicated.
In order to get around one bug.

Python may be a good learning language, but if you want a real language you
should use Lisp!
Or Scheme.

Or Perl, since it's more similar to PHP. I'm not sure if PM has any
experience with Perl, though.

(THAT IS A JOKE)

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On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:11 AM, John Rankin <john.rankin at affinity.co.nz>wrote:

>
> > Rich writes:
> >> Using latest release (pmwiki-2.2.54) and even with the ignore statement
> >> I
> >> continue to get this error with PHP 5.5.1.  Any progress or suggestions?
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Also, the feature is deprecated in PHP 5.5, but not removed, and probably
> > will not be removed any time soon. What should we do?
>
> Would it be feasible to do a straight port of PmWiki to Python, leaving
> the current php version as a legacy implementation?
>
> I understand and agree with the reasons for originally choosing php, but
> that was then and this is now. This is anecdote rather than evidence, but
> I know several people who are teaching Python to their teenage children as
> a first programming language, "so they learn good habits".
>
> This would obviously break the Cookbook recipes, but so would changing the
> php code, as Petko notes.
>
> Could someone with a knowledge of Python advise whether it would be
> practical and sensible to re-implement the PmWiki design? Alternatively,
> an answer along the lines of "Dumb idea because ..." would help.
>
> JR
> --
> John Rankin
>
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