Re: PHP 4.3 charter and release plan

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 11:40, Wez Furlong wrote: > On 03/05/02, "Stig S. Bakken" <ssb@fast.no> wrote: > > Here's the list of major changes, and the person I would like to invite > > as responsible for that part of 4.3: > > 2. PHP Streams (Wez) > > Sure, but I'm a bit limited for time over the next month. That's fine. Predictability is the key. > > When someone has signed up for each major change, I want to get a > > feeling for how much work remains and make a rough internal release > > schedule. The PHP_4_3_0 branch will be created when everyone says their > > stuff is ready for full testing. > > One of the remaining todos for streams is making sure that the persistent > sockets stuff works (pfsockopen); if there are any persistent resources > gurus out there, your advice would be appreciated because there appear to > be a couple of different ways of making things persistent but none of those > methods are clear or documented. > > I'd also like to have a general consensus on the interfaces idea/RFC that > I brought up recently: if the opinion is in favour then I would like to > get that infrastructure in place and have the streams code make use of it: > that serves two purposes - it will demonstrate how to use the interface API, > and will reduce binary compatibility issues if we do decide to introduce it > later on. > I have already written the code for the interface API, so it's really just > a matter of getting a majority "vote" in favour of having it in PHP. +1 from me. I think it'd be nice to play with it for a while to collect experience that can be used to make interfaces perfect in PHP 5 :-) - Stig