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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposing inclusion of PCS in the 7.2 core distribution
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

On 6 June 2017 12:27:16 BST, "lists@rhsoft=2Enet" <lists@rhsoft=2Enet> wrot=
e:
>looking at the code quality (style, readability, robustness,=20
>error-handling) of 99% of php userland code out there - which is=20
>horrible to say it nice -  even if all that is true i still doubt that=20
>it improves quality in the long term, sometimes it's better working=20
>things are not maintained then badly maintained

There is no reason to assume either that we would attract the worst possib=
le PHP programmers, or that we currently attract the best possible C progra=
mmers=2E Indeed, it's likely that a lot of existing extensions have poor st=
yle, lack of robustness, etc, because they were written by people "speaking=
 a second language", i=2Ee=2E PHP programmers trying their hand at C=2E

I'm not even sure your last sentence is true very often - changes to the c=
ore require changes to extensions, so either the entire core stagnates (in =
fear of breaking things) or extensions get abandoned (because rather than w=
orking but unmaintained, they are now broken and unmaintained)=2E

There are certainly details to be worked out, but I think the principle of=
 making it easier to build and maintain a rich core library is a very good =
one=2E

Regards,

--=20
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]