Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:32273 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 69913 invoked by uid 1010); 11 Sep 2007 20:57:25 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 69898 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2007 20:57:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Sep 2007 20:57:24 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=mike@fiddy8.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=mike@fiddy8.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain fiddy8.com from 206.190.36.78 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: mike@fiddy8.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 206.190.36.78 smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com Received: from [206.190.36.78] ([206.190.36.78:39342] helo=smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id E5/C7-33962-13107E64 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:57:23 -0400 Received: (qmail 2121 invoked from network); 11 Sep 2007 20:57:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mrobinson) (dillydilly58@rogers.com@74.116.159.92 with login) by smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Sep 2007 20:57:18 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: lFn8gkQVM1li2MuwcVxPDANSxhfNM9Nc1iCWQDEibgyf.Qz.F8rr4NB9PCpyP620Hg-- To: "'Ilia Alshanetsky'" , "'PHP Developers Mailing List'" Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:57:16 -0400 Message-ID: <001201c7f4b6$562d8f00$0301a8c0@mrobinson> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <6F509818-65A2-4B17-8C44-6970E815A169@prohost.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 Thread-Index: AcfzA+4xXpE4Rco6TGmAErXNcXPZBQBr7zvQ Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List From: mike@fiddy8.com ("Mike Robinson") References: <6F509818-65A2-4B17-8C44-6970E815A169@prohost.org> Since my vote counts for shyte, I'll humbly offer brief remarks instead. Ilia Alshanetsky queried: > 6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes > > 1 0 -1 *Major* BC break in a minor version? Ouch. This should wait I think. > > 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 The mysqlind driver is currently alpha. Wherever it goes it should be marked EXPERIMENTAL and off by default Frankly, I'm wondering (out loud) if PEAR wouldn't be a better place for it until PHP6? Best Regards Mike Robinson