Re: Filesystem path APIs

On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 10:20 PM Niels Dossche <dossche.niels@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi internals > > I'd like to start a pre-RFC discussion about filesystem path APIs in PHP. > The reason I bring this up is because of this recent feature request: > https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/11258 > > The feature request is about the following: > We already have some functions to work with paths in PHP, e.g. basename, > dirname, realpath. > We do not have some common path APIs that you can find in other languages > like: path_join to join paths and path_normalize to normalize paths. > We have a lot of commonly used functionality that's successfully fulfilled by Composer packages - does this really have to be core functionality? I understand the argument about batteries included, but across mainstream languages you can always find examples of something that sounds like it should really be there, but it isn't. -- Best regards, Max Semenik