Re: PHP 5.1 roadmap

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 00:05:32 -0700, Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> wrote: > It sounds to me that it makes sense to split the roadmap into two. Probably > something like: > PHP 5.1: > - Improved VM > - PDO > - Possibly improved serialization > - Other minor changes in language and extension Greg suggests that PEAR 1.4.0 could make an appearance in 5.1 too, featuring better support for PECL extensions. > PHP 5.2: > - Better support for i18n > - int64 > > This is obviously just a general idea and I'm sure there are other things. > As I discussed with Derick today, I think i18n is something where work can > commence ASAP (even before 5.1) but my guess is that it would take quite a > bit of time for it to be release ready. I thought so too. I'd like to get LFS support into 5.1; it kinda needs int64 support. I would be happy with a ZVAL_INT64() macro that assigns an int64 type to a zval; for now it would represent the value as a long if it is < LONG_MAX, but as a string otherwise. This would solve the problem of returning a meaningful value to the script. We could also add an "L" placeholder to zend_parse_parameters() that would handle the reverse of this. I know this isn't a brilliant solution, but it is equivalent to what other int64 extensions are doing, and it would be good to have this centralized. > Having the new VM and PDO out there > earlier makes sense IMO. We just need PDO docs :) I got the message :) > Good luck with the move Wez! Thanks :-) Better get packing.... --Wez.