Re: PHP 5.3 Suggested Feature List

Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > 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 (didn't see anything relevant of it yet) > 3) Apply the Late Static Binding Patch +1 > 4) Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch 0 (is this really something for a minor version?) > 5) Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (patch is > already available) 0 > 6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes -1 (never used any, but I'd say leave that items up for the next major) > 7) Introduce mysqlind library into core and use it as a backend for PDO > and mysqli extensions (possibly enabling them by default) +1 (if it's considered stable enough) > 8) OpenID enabling patch for OpenSSL and PHP 5 +1 > 9) Add array_replace[_recursive] functions (patch is already available) 0 > 10) Split off deprecation from E_STRICT into E_DEPRECATED +1 > 11) Merge the zend_arg_info const'ify patch +1 > 12) Merge the GCC 4 -fvisibility patch -1 (eventually make it a configure option first? PHP is a API mess) > 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 +1 > 16) Introduce new php.ini files parser/scanner + CGI/FastCGI? "htaccess" > style ini file support +1 > 17) Merge __callStatic patch from PHP 6 +1 > 18) Introduce concept of "strict classes" that do not permit dynamic > property creation +1 Regards, -- Michael