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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:48:27 +0300 (EEST)
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PCRE error handling patch
From: sniper@iki.fi (Jani Taskinen)

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Lukas Smith wrote:

> Andrei Zmievski wrote:
>> 5.1.4?
>
> I have the following items as future todos:
>
>   1.  new functions: ext/date: date_sun_info (derick)
>   2. Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli (georg)
>   3. fix __toString() (marcus)

     Wasn't that fixed already? Or was that just in HEAD?

>   4. add support for files >2GB (wez)
>   5. Add input filter extension via a symlink from pecl into core as 
> experimental (derick)
>   6. Add json extension via a symlink from pecl into core as experimental
>   7. add PDO::defaultFetchMode attribute (pierre)
>   8. PCRE: make it possible to set runtime limits on backtracking and 
> recursion and add preg_last_error()
>
> Especially for Nr. 3 I guess we would have to move to 5.2.
> That is why I would favor 5.2 over 5.1.4 and reserve 5.1.4 to a quick security 
> fix release if one becomes necessary.

     I could not agree more. +1 for 5.2. We can't wait for 6.0 forever to get
     some new features in. It's still at least year from now til it's release
     I bet.

     --Jani