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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2023 11:43:43 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Filesystem path APIs
From: maxsem.wiki@gmail.com (Max Semenik)

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On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 10:20=E2=80=AFPM Niels Dossche <dossche.niels@gmail.=
com>
wrote:

> Hi internals
>
> I'd like to start a pre-RFC discussion about filesystem path APIs in PHP.
> The reason I bring this up is because of this recent feature request:
> https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/11258
>
> The feature request is about the following:
> We already have some functions to work with paths in PHP, e.g. basename,
> dirname, realpath.
> We do not have some common path APIs that you can find in other languages
> like: path_join to join paths and path_normalize to normalize paths.
>

We have a lot of commonly used functionality that's successfully fulfilled
by Composer packages - does this really have to be core functionality? I
understand the argument about batteries included, but across mainstream
languages you can always find examples of something that sounds like it
should really be there, but it isn't.


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Best regards,
Max Semenik

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