Re: PHP 6 Preview

Hello Pierre, thanks for the clarification. best regards marcus Wednesday, May 16, 2007, 9:56:25 PM, you wrote: > 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 Best regards, Marcus