Re: About ext/sockets/

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote: >At 22:10 24/6/2001, Jani Taskinen wrote: >>So this is broken now only on *nix? Nice. >>Previously it worked only on unices, now it works only on win32? >>What an improvement. > >Let's keep cynicism off this list, please... :-p >About the socket extension - this was discussed, and agreed upon that the >way it worked was *wrong* and against the PHP spirit. The fact it was also Okay..I don't remember this discussion. But I see the point. >tagged as experimental makes it easier for us to change the API to a >PHP-like API, even though it would have probably been the right thing to do >even if it didn't have the experimental tag. BTW. Have you noticed that I am now the one against breaking BC and YOU want to do it? Did someone switch our brains or what? :) >This does not come to say that it's ok that it's now broken under UNIX, or >how the change was done (I don't remember so I won't comment about it). It >does come to say that the general change was a good idea. This is the reason I got pissed. It worked fine before the change..now it's useless. But Sterling had some fixes pending. Maybe it's okay after those are committed. Also, I would like to see the manual updated ASAP. --Jani