Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:17897 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 67454 invoked by uid 1010); 12 Aug 2005 18:32:20 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 67438 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2005 18:32:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Aug 2005 18:32:20 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 70.85.46.36 unknown Received: from ([70.85.46.36:39300] helo=prohost.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 88/AA-33075-33BECF24 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:32:20 -0400 Received: (qmail 21582 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2005 18:32:15 -0000 Received: from cpe00095beeab35-cm000f9f7d6664.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (69.196.31.219) by prohost.org with SMTP; 12 Aug 2005 18:32:15 -0000 Message-ID: <42FCEB2E.5060807@prohost.org> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:32:14 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pierre-Alain Joye CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <42FCE0E4.604@lerdorf.com> <20050812202339.36b089b2.pierre@dotgeek.org> In-Reply-To: <20050812202339.36b089b2.pierre@dotgeek.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky) This is a very good, point we really should drop support for things like gd1 (no reason anymore, latest versions (including bundled) have GIF support). These only add a hundreds of ifdefs to the code or prevent usage of new(er) functionality. IMHO we should see what is the lowest possible version of a lib distributed by commonly used distro and upgrade our requirements to @ least that version. Ilia Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > Hello, > > +1 to all things, same comment as the opcode cache Ilia's one. > > I would like to add one from my wishes: > > Bump version for the required library as high as possible (or > realist) and do not support museum softwares at all, like droping > freetype v1 for example. Most of the users do not use it anymore, > but it will make the whole much more clean and easier to maintain. > > --Pierre >