RE: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:02:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6? | ||
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I think the sooner the better as it's valuable information for the dev
team.
It'd probably be a good idea to have a Wiki where we can document issues
that/common use-cases which are encountered.
Maybe we should have a Wiki on one of the php.net servers for such
purposes?
Andi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evert | Rooftop [mailto:evert@rooftopsolutions.nl]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 9:40 AM
> To: Andi Gutmans
> Cc: Antony Dovgal; Andrei Zmievski; Stas Malyshev;
> internals@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics"
> in PHP 6?
>
> Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > What I really think we need to do for this release, which
> we haven't
> > been good at doing in the past, is build a PHP Compatibility Team
> > which tries to port many applications to PHP 6 and finds
> the issues in
> > doing this port (both with unicode_semantics=on/off). We can then
> > learn from this experience and have good documentation on how to
> > upgrade to both modes and in some cases, like we have done
> in the past
> > 2-3 weeks, tweak PHP 6 to not break backwards compatibility. It is
> > possible in many cases.
> >
> I'd volunteer for this. Does it help you guys to get started
> with this today, or should I be waiting till there's more
> agreement on some of this stuff..
>
> Evert
>