RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7.2 forked
| From: | Anatol Belski | Date: | Sat, 22 Jul 2017 23:18:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7.2 forked | ||
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Hi Nikita,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nikita Popov [mailto:nikita.ppv@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2017 6:48 PM
> To: Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net>
> Cc: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7.2 forked
>
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote:
>
> > That's it! Feature freeze is on.
> >
> > Please include branch PHP-7.2 in all merges from 7.1 and earlier.
> > Please commit all 7.2 fixes to PHP-7.2 and merge to master which is
> > now targetting 7.3
> >
> > This is real. https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/
> > 5230541ef59e0637d5522293a7d099bf18ce6af3
> >
> > -Sara
> >
>
> What's out current state regarding ABI? I've recently done some work on making
> mbstring slightly less abysmally slow, but landed the changes on master only,
> because this included ABI breaks in mbfl/mbstring APIs and globals. Is this
> something I can land in PHP-7.2, or is it closed to extension ABI changes?
>
I was checking the patch so far, frankly I'm not sure how stable it is yet. But if RMs accept
it, I think quite some stress test should be done. Anyway, as libmbfl doesn't seem to be active
for long, patching it for better compatibility seems a right step.
Regards
Anatol