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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:27:25 +0200
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To: Matteo Beccati <php@beccati.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Move phpng to master
From: tyra3l@gmail.com (Ferenc Kovacs)

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On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Matteo Beccati <php@beccati.com> wrote:

> On 22/07/2014 15:37, Derick Rethans wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Etienne Kneuss wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Once the RFC is approved (I hope)
> >>
> >> Before the merge RFC can be considered for voting, I think it is
> >> critical that you provide a comprehensive migration guide highlighting
> >> the changes required from core developers. This means
> >> https://wiki.php.net/phpng-upgrading should be completed to reflect
> >> all changes.
> >>
> >> It is only then that we can vote with knowledge of how much this big
> >> patch affects the codebase.
> >
> > *this* is something I very much would like to see too.
>
> I agree.
>
> It might sound silly, but it would also be interesting to know what
> could be the effect of phpng on the potential ideas for php6/7 from
> https://wiki.php.net/ideas/php6 (if any).
>
> For most of them it's pretty clear that there's isn't an overlap, but
> how about unicode support? Its implementation might undo or reduce some
> of the performance gains obtained in phpng. Or, if you put it the other
> way around: if we merge phpng to master it might not be acceptable to
> think about adding utf8 support.
>

One can make wishlists, but I don't think we have any people who is
familiar with the area and willing to work for this to
happen(unfortunately).
Of course such a person/group of people can step up and would be welcome to
do so, but I see no point of trying to feature box a release without having
anybody actually working towards those goals.

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