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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:47:34 -0700
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Thread-Topic: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
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To: "Ilia Alshanetsky" <ilia@prohost.org>,
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
From: andi@zend.com ("Andi Gutmans")

See below:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ilia Alshanetsky [mailto:ilia@prohost.org]
> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 10:08 AM
> To: PHP Developers Mailing List
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
>=20
>=20
> List of Feature Ideas
> ----------------------------
>=20
> 1) Backport the namespaces patch for PHP 6
>=20
> 1		0		-1

+1 (pending it's stable and complete).

=20
> 2) Symlink the intl extension from PECL, but leave it disabled by
> default as is the case with all extensions dependent on external libs
>=20
> 1		0		-1

+1

=20
> 3) Apply the Late Static Binding Patch
>=20
> 1		0		-1

+1 (We will do some perf tests on Dmitry's latest patch to make sure the
impact is minimal).

> 4) Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch
>=20
> 1		0		-1

+1 (depending on tests, perf and maturity we can decide on
optional/experimental/etc...)

> 5) Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (patch is
> already available)
>=20
> 1		0		-1

0
=20
> 6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes
>=20
> 1		0		-1

-1
=20
> 7) Introduce mysqlind library into core and use it as a backend for
> PDO and mysqli extensions (possibly enabling them by default)
>=20
> 1		0		-1

0

> 8) OpenID enabling patch for OpenSSL and PHP 5
>=20
> 1		0		-1

+1


> 9) Add array_replace[_recursive] functions (patch is already
available)
>=20
> 1		0		-1


+1

=20
> 10) Split off deprecation from E_STRICT into E_DEPRECATED
>=20
> 1		0		-1

+1

> 11) Merge the zend_arg_info const'ify patch
>=20
> 1		0		-1

0
=20
> 12) Merge the GCC 4 -fvisibility patch
>=20
> 1		0		-1

0

 > 13) Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli
>=20
> 1		0		-1

0
=20
> 14) Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it by
> default)
>=20
> 1		0		-1

-1 (I'd prefer a standard format which can be manipulated with standard
tools (also some tests we did with TAR format we got much better
performance). In general though the use-case should be clear as I don't
think Web apps are the real target here))
=20
> 15) Merge Matt's ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG() optimization patch
>=20
> 1		0		-1

+1

> 16) Introduce new php.ini files parser/scanner + CGI/FastCGI?
> "htaccess" style ini file support
>=20
> 1		0		-1

0 (this can be nice but we need to make sure it's optional because those
stat()'s can be very hard on performance which is why many sites turn
off .htaccess).

=20
> 17) Merge __callStatic patch from PHP 6
>=20
> 1		0		-1

+1
=20
> 18) Introduce concept of "strict classes" that do not permit dynamic
> property creation
>=20
> 1		0		-1

-1