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To: PHP Developers Mailing List <internals@lists.php.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:52:02 -0400
Subject: PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List (Summary)
From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky)

Just over a week has passed since the suggested list of features for  
PHP 5.3 was posted and it looks like all of the people who wanted to  
throw in their votes managed to do so. My thanks to all of the people  
who voted and kept the discussion on track. Here is the end result of  
all the hoopla.

Feature Suggestion															Total Votes	
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
----------------------------------------------------------		
Backport the namespaces patch for PHP 6											20
Symlink the intl extension from PECL												12
Apply the Late Static Binding Patch													21
Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch									7.5
Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension								14.5
Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes								-14
Introduce mysqlind library into core													19.5
OpenID enabling patch for OpenSSL and PHP 5										20
Add array_replace[_recursive] functions (patch is already  
available)					13
Split off deprecation from E_STRICT into E_DEPRECATED							22
Merge the zend_arg_info const'ify patch											15
Merge the GCC 4 -fvisibility patch													6
Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli							3
Link phar extension from PECL into core											6
Merge Matt's ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG() optimization patch					17.5
Introduce new php.ini files parser/scanner + CGI/FastCGI								13
Merge __callStatic patch from PHP 6												20.5
Introduce concept of "strict classes" that do not permit dynamic  
property creation			6


There were a total of 28 people who voted, so a maximum vote was 28.

For the most part it seems that there is a general consensus on the  
features to go into PHP 5.3, my suggestion is that all features with  
 >10 points are to be put into the 5.3 TODO and the rest can have  
another change for PHP 6 and/or PHP 5.4 (if that comes to pass).  
Either way, there definitely appears to be a set a solid reasons to  
start the 5.3 branch.

Ilia Alshanetsky