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To: Lukas Kahwe Smith <mls@pooteeweet.org>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: alternative to the fopen() hack in autoloaders
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 22.11.2009, at 18:01, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:

> I have updated the current RFC accordingly:
> http://wiki.php.net/rfc/autoload_include
>=20
> So there are three approaches listed in the RFC:
> 1) http://wiki.php.net/rfc/autoload_include#proposal
> add a new alternative to include, which works the same except that for =
missing files it returns null and on success it returns the file =
location (unless the file already returns something else explicitly)
>=20
> 2) =
http://wiki.php.net/rfc/autoload_include#add_stream_support_to_includerequ=
ire
> add stream support to include/require
>=20
> 3) =
http://wiki.php.net/rfc/autoload_include#add_function_to_resolve_the_inclu=
de_path
> fix up stream_resolve_include_path() to support streams.
>=20
> I would like to call for a vote on the above. For 1) and 3) I invite =
everybody to optionally also submit a proposal for a name. Finally =
optionally include in your vote if would like to see this feature added =
to 5.3.2 or if it should wait for the next minor/major version update =
instead.


I would like to raise this point once more. I am a bit surprised that =
nobody voted, but I got a lot of feedback from people about this =
proposal offlist when I first brought this to the list. Then again a lot =
of those people were not "core" developers. The fact remains however =
that a large number of frameworks rely on the @fopen() hack and so =
offering a better solution sooner rather than later seems like a very =
good idea.

Then again, no vote essentially means sticking with the status quo aka =
stream_resolve_include_path() (which needs some additional love as the =
RFC states to really serve for what it was originally intended) when =
PHP6 comes out.

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org