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Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 22:11:10 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6 Preview
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Pierre,

  thanks for the clarification.

best regards
marcus

Wednesday, May 16, 2007, 9:56:25 PM, you wrote:

> On 5/16/07, Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net> wrote:
>> Hello internals,
>>
>>   I don't see any progress for PHP 6 in the last several months. And we
>> head more and more into a situation where people no longer develop in
>> HEAD and instead develop in 5.2 without caring to MFB.

> Please tell these "people" to MFB. Everyone has to MFB or ask for help
> if they don't have the time, knowledge or motivation.

>> All I know is that we are waiting for the filter extension. As it appears
>> right now, I do not see Pierre doing the job he offered so we need to find
>> somebody else here. Anyone care to jump in who has the indepth knowledge?

> This information is incorrect and misguided, please understand what
> you are talking about before making inappropriate claims. Simply
> asking me or really any other developer of the filter extension would
> have been more productive. I do check my email, and am many times on
> IRC.

> The filter extension is not holding up PHP 6 except it does not yet
> support unicode but that's not the point. Right now all of PHP is
> 60.56% unicode converted.

>> And besides this filter issue, what are the remaining pieces to be done?

> Now moving on, what you might be referring to is the upcoming input
> encoding system (again, nothing to do with ext/filter). We have had
> some (very) long discussions about what has to be done, including some
> off list, and how to do it. As I remember, there are two people who
> are in position to complete this task, both Dmitry and myself but
> neither of us have had the time to finish it yet. The JIT at runtime
> is done but the input decoding (callback, default values change,
> errors, etc.) is not finished.

> About the php6 todos in general, I have to take a look again to the
> wiki and my todos for the extension I maintain. This long weekend may
> be a good opportunity to do some planing.


> --Pierre



Best regards,
 Marcus