CSSMin::minify is restarting Apache

[hypeJunction]

Not entirely sure what's causing this, but something in CSSMin::minify is restarting Apache on Win.

[mrclay]

PCRE in PHP is terrible. There's definitely a newer CSSmin available; we could try that.

[mrclay]

PCRE config values have to be hand-tuned to handle certain pattern matching scenarios. In other words it's totally broken for anything but small tasks. I get reports about crashes in Minify All The Time.

[hypeJunction]

I will avoid it for now. I can compile compressed css from scss sources for my own projects, the rest can just live without compression for now.

[mrclay]

Would you mind sending a PR to update this?

[hypeJunction]

I would if I had a tiny bit of clue about what's happening there. All the regex makes me dizzy

[jdalsem]

i do not have this problem on my windows installation. Any error message or steps to reproduce?

[hypeJunction]

Not really. It could be some piece of CSS I had in my theme. I have disabled the minification and haven't used it since I reported this.

[mrclay]

Let's update our copy from the vendor as 1st step.

[jdalsem]

@hypeJunction can you try updating the vendor to see if that is solving this issue for you?

[mrclay]

We should switch to https://github.com/tubalmartin/YUI-CSS-compressor-PHP-port, which is the original source of cssmin. Minify just has an old copy.

[hypeJunction]

This hasn't manifested itself in a while.