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Subject: Re: PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
From: emil.vladev@gmail.com (emo)

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

+1

> 
> 4) Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch
> 
> 1        0        -1

0

> 
> 5) Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (patch is 
> already available)
> 
> 1        0        -1

+1

> 
> 6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes
> 
> 1        0        -1

-2

> 
> 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

0

> 
> 9) Add array_replace[_recursive] functions (patch is already available)
> 
> 1        0        -1

+1

> 
> 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

+1

> 
> 14) Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it by 
> default)
> 
> 1        0        -1

+1 (Depends how it will cope with namespaces?)

> 
> 15) Merge Matt's ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG() optimization patch
> 
> 1        0        -1

0

> 
> 16) Introduce new php.ini files parser/scanner + CGI/FastCGI? "htaccess" 
> style ini file support
> 
> 1        0        -1

0

> 
> 17) Merge __callStatic patch from PHP 6
> 
> 1        0        -1

+1

> 
> 18) Introduce concept of "strict classes" that do not permit dynamic 
> property creation
> 
> 1        0        -1

0

Regards,
Emil Ivanov