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Subject: Fixing this date mess
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

We need to fix this date thing along with the Digest Auth mixup and get 
a 5.1.1 out the door soon.  I see Ilia committed a fix for the Digest 
Auth thing, so assuming that this fix works, we just need to figure out 
what to do with this date class.  We can either roll back:

http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/php-src/ext/date/php_date.c?r1=1.43.2.20&r2=1.43.2.21&ty=u

or perhaps a better option is to rename that internal class for now 
until we have a better idea of what this class is going to look like and 
how we transition pear/Date users.  Naming it date_ex (for experimental) 
or something like that for now lets us keep the class constants as they 
are and hopefully Derick and Pierre can come to some sort of truce on 
the actual implementation.  I don't think having this mostly empty date 
class placeholder helps anybody right now.

This rename would also give us a migration path where you could have a 
simple: class date extends date_ex { ... } wrapper which could then be 
removed when we have the final internal date class implementation.

-Rasmus