@moderndeveloperllc We cannot rely on availability of ext/intl - in particular, consider new alternative runtimes such as HHVM, which still don't have that extension available. So, it would need to be made optional.

Additionally, consider ZF1, which still has a minimum supported PHP version of 5.2; that means ext/intl availability cannot be assumed at all for that platform. If you want me to backport it, we need to make that an optional dependency.