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Subject: Re: RC1
From: guru@php.net (Joe Estock)

On 2/4/2004 12:20 PM, Zeev Suraski wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> As you must have realized Andi and I have resolved some of the key 
> remaining issues for PHP 5 (and we still are).
> Due to fact that some of these changes have been pretty big changes we 
> suggest to turn the RC1 we wanted to release at the end of January to a 
> beta 4 by the end of next week.
> If everything goes smoothly after that, we think RC1 should follow two 
> weeks later.
> Also, Dmitry has pretty much finished his work on doing a major rewrite 
> of the SOAP extension. We think it would be cool to include it in Beta 4 
> (it will be feature-frozen by that time) and then go for inclusion in 
> PHP 5.
> 
> A couple of issues we'd like to decide onbefore we go out with beta 4 are:
> 
> (a) Failure return value of FETCH_RESOURCE and the default return value 
> - should we change it to be FALSE?  Today it's NULL, which is 
> inconsistent with most of the functions in PHP which return FALSE on 
> failure.  The downside is that changing it may break scripts that check 
> the return value with === or !==
> 
> (b) Default inclusion of the SOAP extension
> 
> Comments welcome,
> 
> Zeev
> 
Ok, after many many days of trying to figure out why my posts were not 
showing up, I finally figured it out

 > (b) Default inclusion of the SOAP extension
I would have to +1 this. I have seen extensive use of SOAP + PHP 
recently and I think that this would be a great addition, however I can 
see Ilia's point:

 > +0. Overall it seems like a good idea. However, I am not sure how
 > stable is SOAP extension after massive revisions Dmitry did and the
 > TODO list still has quite a few entries in it. Do we really want to
 > halt (feature freeze) development at this point?

Even still, I feel that this would be a valuable addition to PHP since 
many sites/scripts are using SOAP.

Joe Estock (a.k.a. guru)