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Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:58:48 +0200
Cc: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>,
 Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@php.net>,
 Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com>,
 Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3.0RC3
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 12.05.2009, at 04:20, Matt Wilmas wrote:

> Hi Lukas,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lukas Kahwe Smith"
> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009
>
>>
>> [...]
>>> Critical issues:
>>> 1) I assume the issues with rounding are resolved. If any issues  
>>> pop  up again, please let the list know.
>>
>> @Matt/Dmitry: Can you just give us the quick nod that all is well  
>> here?
>
> No, can't say that all is well. :-/  Nothing was changed yet, sorry  
> if you misunderstood.  (BTW, it's not rounding/parsing, but  
> conversion/casting of floats->integers... :-))

Doh. Would have been nice if someone could have alerted us about this  
ahead of RC2. So it goes.

> I sent the updated patch a month ago, and then the next week Stas  
> asked some questions off-list, for clarification, etc. and then said  
> that the patch "looks good" and "since it appears to fix things I  
> think it can be applied." That's the only feedback I had really, and  
> Dmitry mentioned that it "breaks" about 30 tests (I'd consider them  
> broken now, to match the code, however ;-)), which I knew would have  
> to be updated.  I didn't try to fix them yet, since I didn't know if  
> the changes would finally be applied or not.  I was going to bring  
> it up again but then it was too close to RC2.
>
> There were some e-mails on the subject that I didn't follow up on  
> (nothing major, just comments), including one of yours I think.   
> Anyway, I guess I/we can wonder about RC3 now?  Again, the *very  
> minor* modifications only help to ensure the [usual] long-standing  
> behavior on all platforms -- e.g. most users would see no change  
> from 5.2 or prior.

@Stas/Dmitry: ?

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org