Re: PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List

From: Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:57:14 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List
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Hi, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
List of Feature Ideas ---------------------------- 1) Backport the namespaces patch for PHP 6 +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 0
3) Apply the Late Static Binding Patch +1
4) Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch -1
5) Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (patch is already available) 0
6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes +1
7) Introduce mysqlind library into core and use it as a backend for PDO and mysqli extensions (possibly enabling them by default) 0
8) OpenID enabling patch for OpenSSL and PHP 5 0
9) Add array_replace[_recursive] functions (patch is already available) +1
10) Split off deprecation from E_STRICT into E_DEPRECATED +1
11) Merge the zend_arg_info const'ify patch 0
12) Merge the GCC 4 -fvisibility patch 0
13) Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli 0
14) Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it by default) +1
15) Merge Matt's ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG() optimization patch 0
16) Introduce new php.ini files parser/scanner + CGI/FastCGI? "htaccess" style ini file support 0
17) Merge __callStatic patch from PHP 6 +1
18) Introduce concept of "strict classes" that do not permit dynamic property creation +1
Best regards, Stephan

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