Re: PHP 6 Preview

On 5/16/07, Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net> wrote:

Hello internals, I don't see any progress for PHP 6 in the last several months. And we head more and more into a situation where people no longer develop in HEAD and instead develop in 5.2 without caring to MFB.

Please tell these "people" to MFB. Everyone has to MFB or ask for help if they don't have the time, knowledge or motivation.

All I know is that we are waiting for the filter extension. As it appears right now, I do not see Pierre doing the job he offered so we need to find somebody else here. Anyone care to jump in who has the indepth knowledge?

This information is incorrect and misguided, please understand what you are talking about before making inappropriate claims. Simply asking me or really any other developer of the filter extension would have been more productive. I do check my email, and am many times on IRC. The filter extension is not holding up PHP 6 except it does not yet support unicode but that's not the point. Right now all of PHP is 60.56% unicode converted.

And besides this filter issue, what are the remaining pieces to be done?

Now moving on, what you might be referring to is the upcoming input encoding system (again, nothing to do with ext/filter). We have had some (very) long discussions about what has to be done, including some off list, and how to do it. As I remember, there are two people who are in position to complete this task, both Dmitry and myself but neither of us have had the time to finish it yet. The JIT at runtime is done but the input decoding (callback, default values change, errors, etc.) is not finished. About the php6 todos in general, I have to take a look again to the wiki and my todos for the extension I maintain. This long weekend may be a good opportunity to do some planing. --Pierre