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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 14:46:20 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] SVN Account Request: kriscraig
From: kris.craig@gmail.com (Kris Craig)

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I'm starting to wonder if I'm sending this to the correct list.  It's been
another two weeks since my last email and I still have yet to receive a
response.  In fact, I haven't heard a thing from anyone since I sent the
first patch out (as requested) back on August 10th.

Could somebody (anybody) please email me a response when you get this?  If
you could tell me what I need to do and/or who I need to send this to in
order to illicit an answer, I would be extremely grateful for your advice!
I would be even more grateful (for whatever that's worth) if you have any
thoughts on the latest date patch I sent.


Thanks!

--Kris


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's been a couple months since I heard anything, so I wanted to check the
> status of my request and update you on my efforts.  Things got pretty busy
> so I didn't have much time to work on this in August, but the last couple
> weeks I've been able to really dive into it.
>
> The latest patch is attached (based off 5.3.3 r303757 now).  As you can
> see, it's no longer just a hacky proof-of-concept like the previous patch
> sent out.  This actually makes full use of the formulas and has been
> thoroughly tested.
>
> The only issue I'm running into is precision.  You'll notice I've got a ton
> of type casting all over the place (including a lot of unnecessary long
> doubles lol) which I'll have cleaned-up in the next patch.  These formulas
> are accurate to within a few seconds (over the next several thousand years
> at least), but the level of precision required is a bit much for standard
> floating points to handle.  As a result, the equinox/solstice start dates
> are off by about 6-14 minutes when compiled on stock Ubuntu 10.04 and 0-7
> minutes when compiled on Windows (VC9).  Is the PHP source currently making
> use of any arbitrary precision libraries (like MPFR, etc) anywhere?  That
> would easily solve this rounding issue and enable me to put together some
> PHPT tests with predictable results.
>
>
> Also, I would like to ping for an update on my SVN account request.  If
> there is anything further you need me to do for you in order to complete
> this process, I will be more than happy to do it.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Kris
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Woops, sorry.  Here's the file renamed to .txt.  Thanks for the tip!
>>
>>
>> --Kris
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Michael Maclean <mgdm@php.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/08/10 20:28, Kris Craig wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sorry, I guess it would help if I actually attached the patch.....  Here
>>>> it is.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The list strips attachments with filenames ending in something other than
>>> .txt - resend or perhaps put it online somewhere?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>
>>
>

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