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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.1
From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky)

Jay,

I've noticed that you're still using the ini parser in this new code, 
would it not be easier and allow for greater code re-use to use the CSV 
database and the underlying fgetcsv code?

Ilia

Jay Smith wrote:
> Andi Gutmans wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hey,
>>
>>I just heard from Wez that PDO is in very advanced stages now (ready for
>>beta). I would like to start the PHP 5.1 release process. Due to the lack
>>of testing both the new engine VM and PDO have received I would like to
>>start with a beta process so that we get feedback.
>>
>>I know there are still some fixes that need to be applied both in the
>>engine and in extensions so I would like to release a beta on March 1st (a
>>month from today).
>>Derick also mentioned that his new very much needed Date
>>extension will be ready by that date.
>>
>>I believe both PDO and Date should be included in the default distro. As
>>far as PDO is concerned I think for each DB if it is selected at configure
>>time, the relevant PDO extension should also be enabled. So doing
>>--with-oci8 should enable both ext/oci8 and ext/pdo_oci. This will give
>>users more of a choice, give more exposure to PDO which is one of the most
>>important features of 5.1 and of course, it doesn't really cost us very
>>much except for having to do some configure hacking.
>>
>>Comments/Flames/Praises to this list :)
>>
>>Andi
> 
> 
> Seems every time I get ready to finally commit the new browscap stuff that
> I've been sitting on for 5.1 since forever, something always comes up and
> it gets on the backburner.
> 
> Since I've been out of the loop for so long (still passively reading the
> lists, but I haven't had much time to actively participate in much of
> anything of late) perhaps someone else should commit this stuff. There are
> a few added files and a patch and that's pretty much it. I've tested
> against a copy of HEAD I just checked out on linux and Win2k with VS6, and
> it seems to work okay, although I haven't tried any of the Visual Studio
> workspaces or anything, so they may assplode, I don't know.
> 
> The patch is at http://bugs.tutorbuddy.com/download/browscap.patch.tar.gz .
> It's not exactly new VM exciting or PDO exciting (which, if you're reading
> this Wez, looks quite nice), but browser detection is something I think PHP
> should do well. It is primarily a web scripting language, after all. 
> 
> J
>