Re: PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List

On 9/10/07, Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> wrote: > See below: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ilia Alshanetsky [mailto:ilia@prohost.org] > > Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 10:08 AM > > To: PHP Developers Mailing List > > Subject: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List > > > > > > List of Feature Ideas > > ---------------------------- > > > > 1) Backport the namespaces patch for PHP 6 > > > > 1 0 -1 > > +1 (pending it's stable and complete). > > > > 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 > > +1 > > > > 3) Apply the Late Static Binding Patch > > > > 1 0 -1 > > +1 (We will do some perf tests on Dmitry's latest patch to make sure the > impact is minimal). > > > 4) Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch > > > > 1 0 -1 > > +1 (depending on tests, perf and maturity we can decide on > optional/experimental/etc...) > > > 5) Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (patch is > > already available) > > > > 1 0 -1 > > 0 > > > 6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes > > > > 1 0 -1 > > -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 > > 0 > > > 8) OpenID enabling patch for OpenSSL and PHP 5 > > > > 1 0 -1 > > +1 > > > > 9) Add array_replace[_recursive] functions (patch is already > available) > > > > 1 0 -1 > > > +1 > > > > 10) Split off deprecation from E_STRICT into E_DEPRECATED > > > > 1 0 -1 > > +1 > > > 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 > > -1 (I'd prefer a standard format which can be manipulated with standard > tools (also some tests we did with TAR format we got much better > performance). In general though the use-case should be clear as I don't > think Web apps are the real target here)) > > > 15) Merge Matt's ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG() optimization patch > > > > 1 0 -1 > > +1 > > > 16) Introduce new php.ini files parser/scanner + CGI/FastCGI? > > "htaccess" style ini file support > > > > 1 0 -1 > > 0 (this can be nice but we need to make sure it's optional because those > stat()'s can be very hard on performance which is why many sites turn > off .htaccess). For the record here, a cache is planed once we have a stable version. Something like what htscanner does, it already caches the entries (cache + stat check once ttl is over). Cheers, --Pierre