Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:17905 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 81516 invoked by uid 1010); 12 Aug 2005 18:57:44 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 81501 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2005 18:57:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Aug 2005 18:57:44 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 63.111.67.240 unknown Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([63.111.67.240:55672] helo=portal.edmscorp.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 5C/BC-33075-621FCF24 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:57:43 -0400 Received: (qmail 17402 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2005 14:35:25 -0400 Received: from softdnserror (HELO ?10.30.0.186?) (63.78.249.186) by 63.111.67.240 with SMTP; 12 Aug 2005 14:35:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <42FCEB2E.5060807@prohost.org> References: <42FCE0E4.604@lerdorf.com> <20050812202339.36b089b2.pierre@dotgeek.org> <42FCEB2E.5060807@prohost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-ID: Cc: Pierre-Alain Joye , internals@lists.php.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:57:34 -0600 To: Ilia Alshanetsky X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 6.0 Wishlist From: darrell@brogdon.net (Darrell Brogdon) Maybe this is too far reaching but what about making function parameter orders consistent? For example, make in_array() require in_array(array haystack, mixed needle[...) just as most of the string functions. -D On Aug 12, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > 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 >> >> > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Darrell Brogdon darrell@brogdon.net http://darrell.brogdon.net