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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:31:58 +0200
To: Ilia Alshanetsky <ilia@prohost.org>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
From: dz@bitxtender.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?David_Z=FClke?=)

Am 09.09.2007 um 19:07 schrieb Ilia Alshanetsky:

> 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

-1
Wait until it is stable and feature complete (guess it wouldn't be in  
time a for a 5.3 release), otherwise, we might run into the problem  
that minor releases have different functionalities.


> 3) Apply the Late Static Binding Patch
>
> 1		0		-1

+1

> 4) Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch
>
> 1		0		-1

-1
Is that really tested well enough already?

> 5) Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (patch is  
> already available)
>
> 1		0		-1

0

> 6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes
>
> 1		0		-1

-1
Why break BC in a .x release?	

> 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

0

> 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

0

> 10) Split off deprecation from E_STRICT into E_DEPRECATED
>
> 1		0		-1

+1

And 0 for the rest of them.