Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:30742 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 30899 invoked by uid 1010); 10 Jul 2007 16:40:24 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 30884 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2007 16:40:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Jul 2007 16:40:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=evert@rooftopsolutions.nl; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=evert@rooftopsolutions.nl; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain rooftopsolutions.nl from 66.207.192.6 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: evert@rooftopsolutions.nl X-Host-Fingerprint: 66.207.192.6 smtp1.beanfield.net FreeBSD 4.6-4.9 Received: from [66.207.192.6] ([66.207.192.6:1043] helo=smtp1.beanfield.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 19/18-59162-676B3964 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:40:24 -0400 Received: from 206-223-184-72.beanfield.net (206-223-184-72.beanfield.net [206.223.184.72]) by smtp1.beanfield.net (8.13.4/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l6AGblL7051555; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:37:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from evert@rooftopsolutions.nl) Message-ID: <4693B66C.4000908@rooftopsolutions.nl> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:40:12 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Macintosh/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Gutmans CC: Antony Dovgal , Andrei Zmievski , Stas Malyshev , internals@lists.php.net References: <1181829227.3478.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4678252F.2050803@sci.fi> <46783212.4020900@lerdorf.com> <34654.216.230.84.67.1183064088.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> <54557.78.61.224.253.1183098089.squirrel@avilys.eik.lt> <4684BB91.4070507@zend.com> <2169.24.1.37.132.1183693664.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> <1183699755.14343.5.camel@johannes.nop> <7d5a202f0707060224oa64dfeaw2c7ee17a735648f9@mail.gmail.com> <468E1158.2030900@lerdorf.com> <468E13C6.1070109@pooteeweet.org> <468E2009.9000703@zend.com> <468E7180.3020709@zend.com> <468E7256.10905@zend.com> <4692B1A3.1000808@zend.com> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE647897@us-ex1.zend.net> <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE64794E@us-ex1.zend.net> In-Reply-To: <698DE66518E7CA45812BD18E807866CE64794E@us-ex1.zend.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6? From: evert@rooftopsolutions.nl (Evert | Rooftop) Andi Gutmans wrote: > What I really think we need to do for this release, which we haven't > been good at doing in the past, is build a PHP Compatibility Team which > tries to port many applications to PHP 6 and finds the issues in doing > this port (both with unicode_semantics=on/off). We can then learn from > this experience and have good documentation on how to upgrade to both > modes and in some cases, like we have done in the past 2-3 weeks, tweak > PHP 6 to not break backwards compatibility. It is possible in many > cases. > I'd volunteer for this. Does it help you guys to get started with this today, or should I be waiting till there's more agreement on some of this stuff.. Evert