Re: Built-in SOAP based Web Services support (wasRe: PHP 5)

Hello, "Sean R. Bright" wrote: > > Manuel: > > Is there something stopping you from implementing this? Yes, free time to motivate me to stop working on other developments from which I can make a living. Another thing, it has been a while (more than 2 years) since I decided to not dedicate my developments wholly to PHP. I have been working on a meta-programming language that lets me write software that can be compiled to generate code in different languages: PHP, Java, Perl, etc... This means whatever I write in that meta-language can be used not just withing PHP programs but also programs in other languages. I think that constraining myself just to PHP will limit the possibilities and the future of my software developments. I already have some SOAP components written in this meta-language. If I work on something that would make it easier to provide and consume Web servers (and I have been doing some work), I will invest my time better on doing it with this meta-language rather than something that is PHP specific. If you care about this meta-language, look here: http://www.meta-language.net/ . Anyway, notice that my suggestion was just made because Andi asked for suggestions and I thing built-in Web services consuption support is important for PHP and not because I have a special need for that. Regards, Manuel Lemos > > Sean > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Manuel Lemos [mailto:mlemos@acm.org] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 5:54 PM > > To: php-dev@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Built-in SOAP based Web Services > > support (wasRe: > > PHP 5) > > > > > > Hello, > > > > Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > > > > At 23:30 01/01/2002, Richard Heyes wrote: > > > > > However, suggesting this kind of > > > > > ideas is usually pretty pointless, unless you're > > willing to actually do > > > > > something about it. > > > > > > > >Well Andi asked for discussion on ideas for php5. And > > these suggestions imo > > > >are not pointless, as a developer may well pick up on them > > and start work on > > > >them. > > > > > > It wasn't exactly a suggestion. It was more like "unless > > you do it, PHP is > > > going to be a useless piece of crap that nobody would use; > > if you do it - > > > it's still pretty hopeless, but just a tiny bit less". > > > > Of course you may interpret it the way you want, but I described a > > feature that PHP does not have and even suggested an implementation > > format. Since I already noticed several people dropping PHP > > to do simple > > things such as consuming a Web service because there much better > > alternatives for this purpose, I added that I am afraid that > > this trend > > of dropping PHP for the lack of support like this will be more evident > > soon or later. Of course you may continue to disconsider my > > suggestions > > as you usually do. > > > > Regards, > > Manuel Lemos > > > > -- > > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >