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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Weak References
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Hannes Landeholm wrote:
> I've been a PHP fan for years and endured the patchy OO implementation
> and the limitations that has come with the language for the
> simplicity. Unfortunately I don't have time to wait for years even if
> many of you guys do. If I did I wouldn't have bothered writing the RFC
> or writing in this mailing list. You guys should look into this new
> rapid release cycle thing. It's the next iteration of software
> development.

The fast development root does seem to have been a little screwed up recently, 
but if there is nothing in an extension that requires direct access to the core 
and that extension CAN simply be enabled as required, then pecl is the way to 
go? We do need the pecl area to be properly included in the build process with 
windows builds being created just as they used to be, but the process is working 
fine for APC and perhaps the plan should be to moving some more extensions that 
are being worked on between PHP releases into the pecl process? It used to be 
that many of the extensions I used were managed in pecl ... and I'd be quite 
happy if they moved back there. There is nothing stopping 'Weak References' 
being added by those who want them ... but I can't see the point myself when 
running scripts live.

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