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Subject: Re: PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
From: greg@chiaraquartet.net (Gregory Beaver)

Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> Its been about a week since RFS for features to go into 5.3 has gone out
> and while there was not a "flood" of ideas there is a substantial list
> of key changes people would like to go into this release. I've compiled
> a list of all of the suggestions I've received, they are listed below in
> a form that will hopefully make it easy for people to vote their yeys
> and nays. My hope that we can reach an agreement within 1-2 weeks so 5.3
> can be branched and work on it can begin.
> 
> List of Feature Ideas
> ----------------------------
> 
> 1) Backport the namespaces patch for PHP 6

+1

> 2) Symlink the intl extension from PECL, but leave it disabled by
> default as is the case with all extensions dependent on external libs

0

> 3) Apply the Late Static Binding Patch

+1

> 4) Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch

0

> 5) Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (patch is
> already available)

+1

> 6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes

0

> 7) Introduce mysqlind library into core and use it as a backend for PDO
> and mysqli extensions (possibly enabling them by default)

+2

> 8) OpenID enabling patch for OpenSSL and PHP 5

+1

> 9) Add array_replace[_recursive] functions (patch is already available)

+0

> 10) Split off deprecation from E_STRICT into E_DEPRECATED

+100000

> 11) Merge the zend_arg_info const'ify patch

0

> 12) Merge the GCC 4 -fvisibility patch

0

> 13) Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli

0

> 14) Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it by
> default)

+1 (by the way, callgrind profiling reveals a ~300% speed difference
between userland PHP_Archive and pecl/phar in average case, and more in
best case.  More optimizations are possible and planned as well that
will make phar equal to or even faster than straight FS ops when coupled
with APC).

> 15) Merge Matt's ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG() optimization patch

0

> 16) Introduce new php.ini files parser/scanner + CGI/FastCGI? "htaccess"
> style ini file support

+1

> 17) Merge __callStatic patch from PHP 6

+1

> 18) Introduce concept of "strict classes" that do not permit dynamic
> property creation

-1


Thanks,
Greg