PHP 4.3 ToDo

I am commenting some entries from the ToDo here:

global ------ For PHP 4.3.0: * Add aliases to functions to conform to new naming conventions, e.g.

     str_to_upper().

some work done - many work needed here. What about a new compiler define that allows enabling/disabling old function names and then make a configure switch for that? That would be a good and simple solution, i guess.

* Make all extensions thread-safe.

lol: How do we know that? Partly er rely on external libraries...discussed elsewhere

* Make everything on the language-level independent of your locale

     settings.

many work done - are we ready?

* Change PHP error messages, so that they point to pages or sections

     in the PHP Manual.

partly done

* Make sure that all ZTS globals get destructed. Most ts_allocate_id()

     calls should have a dtor entry.

?

* Activate all extensions by default that don't rely on external

     dependencies. (eg ftp) (DONE?)

not done extreme example is mbstring discussed the last days.

* on some platforms unimplemented function will just do nothing

     (e.g. symlink) they should print a warning or not even be defined!
     (DONE ?)

partly done or are we already finished in this?

* Use arg_separator.input to implode args in the CGI sapi extension

     and arg_separator.input to explode in php_build_argv(). (DONE?)

?

* Implement flush feature suitable for nested output buffers.

Heavily discussed - what will we do next here? As a conclusion i think we should go for 4.4 and not directly to 5.0. Additional i would vote for 4.4 being delivered in two offical version one with ZE1 and one with ZE2. marcus