Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:32248 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 587 invoked by uid 1010); 11 Sep 2007 13:23:58 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 571 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2007 13:23:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Sep 2007 13:23:57 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 80.123.98.46 unknown Received: from [80.123.98.46] ([80.123.98.46:8565] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 4A/B0-28712-BE696E64 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:23:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4A.B0.28712.BE696E64@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:23:40 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (X11/20070824) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <6F509818-65A2-4B17-8C44-6970E815A169@prohost.org> In-Reply-To: <6F509818-65A2-4B17-8C44-6970E815A169@prohost.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 80.123.98.46 Subject: Re: PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List From: mike@php.net (Michael Wallner) Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > 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 (didn't see anything relevant of it yet) > 3) Apply the Late Static Binding Patch +1 > 4) Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch 0 (is this really something for a minor version?) > 5) Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (patch is > already available) 0 > 6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes -1 (never used any, but I'd say leave that items up for the next major) > 7) Introduce mysqlind library into core and use it as a backend for PDO > and mysqli extensions (possibly enabling them by default) +1 (if it's considered stable enough) > 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 +1 > 11) Merge the zend_arg_info const'ify patch +1 > 12) Merge the GCC 4 -fvisibility patch -1 (eventually make it a configure option first? PHP is a API mess) > 13) Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli 0 > 14) Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it by > default) +1 > 15) Merge Matt's ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG() optimization patch +1 > 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 Regards, -- Michael