Re: PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List

On 09.09.2007 21:07, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > Its been about a week since RFS for features to go into 5.3 has gone > out and while there was not a "flood" of ideas there is a substantial > list of key changes people would like to go into this release. I've > compiled a list of all of the suggestions I've received, they are > listed below in a form that will hopefully make it easy for people to > vote their yeys and nays. My hope that we can reach an agreement > within 1-2 weeks so 5.3 can be branched and work on it can begin. > > List of Feature Ideas > ---------------------------- > > 1) Backport the namespaces patch for PHP 6 > > 1 0 -1 I thought most of us agreed that 5.3 should be == (PHP6 - Unicode). 1 > 2) Symlink the intl extension from PECL, but leave it disabled by > default as is the case with all extensions dependent on external libs > > 1 0 -1 Once it's ready for production - why not? 1 > 3) Apply the Late Static Binding Patch > > 1 0 -1 0 > 4) Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch > > 1 0 -1 IIRC that's one of the reasons for 5.3 branch. 1 > 5) Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (patch is > already available) > > 1 0 -1 0/-1 (see on reason to touch a working extension, but I don't really care). > 6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes > > 1 0 -1 Let's leave this for HEAD. -1 > 7) Introduce mysqlind library into core and use it as a backend for > PDO and mysqli extensions (possibly enabling them by default) > > 1 0 -1 1 Same as PECL/intl - once it's ready, I see no reason to keep it "hidden". > 8) OpenID enabling patch for OpenSSL and PHP 5 > > 1 0 -1 0 > 9) Add array_replace[_recursive] functions (patch is already available) > > 1 0 -1 Do we really need more array functions? I believe we already have quite a number. -1 > 10) Split off deprecation from E_STRICT into E_DEPRECATED > > 1 0 -1 -1 Didn't see any arguments for this. > 11) Merge the zend_arg_info const'ify patch > > 1 0 -1 0 > 12) Merge the GCC 4 -fvisibility patch > > 1 0 -1 0 > 13) Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli > > 1 0 -1 0 > 14) Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it by > default) > > 1 0 -1 0 (-1 for enabling it by default). > 15) Merge Matt's ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG() optimization patch > > 1 0 -1 From what I recall, all Matt's patches were really good. So I'm 0/+1. > 16) Introduce new php.ini files parser/scanner + CGI/FastCGI? > "htaccess" style ini file support > > 1 0 -1 0 AFAIK it's too early. > 17) Merge __callStatic patch from PHP 6 > > 1 0 -1 1/0. I believe we should decide on more general problems first, i.e. what is 5_3 - is this (5_2 + a couple of patches) or (HEAD - Unicode)? > 18) Introduce concept of "strict classes" that do not permit dynamic > property creation > > 1 0 -1 0 -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal