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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:54:39 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
From: abaker@php.net (Al Baker)

Comments inline

On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 13:07 -0400, 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		0		-1

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
> 
> 1		0		-1
> 

0

> 3) Apply the Late Static Binding Patch
> 
> 1		0		-1
> 

0

> 4) Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch
> 
> 1		0		-1
> 

1

> 5) Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (patch is  
> already available)
> 
> 1		0		-1
> 

1, but should be anything newer than sqlite-3.4.0.  Versions prior to
that had some issues with concurrency and locking under extreme load

> 6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes
> 
> 1		0		-1
> 

0

> 7) Introduce mysqlind library into core and use it as a backend for  
> PDO and mysqli extensions (possibly enabling them by default)
> 
> 1		0		-1

1

> 
> 8) OpenID enabling patch for OpenSSL and PHP 5
> 
> 1		0		-1
> 

1

> 9) Add array_replace[_recursive] functions (patch is already available)
> 
> 1		0		-1
> 

0

> 10) Split off deprecation from E_STRICT into E_DEPRECATED
> 
> 1		0		-1
> 

1

> 11) Merge the zend_arg_info const'ify patch
> 
> 1		0		-1
> 

0

> 12) Merge the GCC 4 -fvisibility patch
> 
> 1		0		-1
> 

0

> 13) Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli
> 
> 1		0		-1
> 

0

> 14) Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it by  
> default)
> 
> 1		0		-1
> 

1

> 15) Merge Matt's ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG() optimization patch
> 
> 1		0		-1
> 

1

> 16) Introduce new php.ini files parser/scanner + CGI/FastCGI?  
> "htaccess" style ini file support
> 
> 1		0		-1
> 

1

> 17) Merge __callStatic patch from PHP 6
> 
> 1		0		-1
> 

0

> 18) Introduce concept of "strict classes" that do not permit dynamic  
> property creation
> 
> 1		0		-1
> 

1, if you can disable it to have dynamic property creation (a great
feature of PHP in my opinion)

> Ilia Alshanetsky
>