Re: Re: [php-icu] Graphemes and unicode vs intl extension

Hi Tex On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Tex Texin <tex@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > Pierre, Marcus, et al. > > 1) The project started a year or so ago. So for a whole year none of you (not even the Zend employees that should know better) thought that there maight be a coding standard that you should follow? Both for the extension itself and everything it exposes to the user. > The manual documentation was announced by Stas for review to this list as well on Dec 4. And the changes requested by us still haven't been made. > So there has been opportunity for input on the specs and the project is above board. No one is > "deciding anything about PHP". Few people want this extension to be moved to core, which means: every decision about this extension is "deciding anything about PHP". > 2) I cannot fathom why you say that minds cannot be changed. Questions were asked and > answered. The discussion is ongoing. Where is the problem? This thread originated on php-icu@lists.zend.com. That is a big fat problem. Why didn't you use php-icu@lists.php.net? > 4) One more note: As the specs and beta have been out for months, we thought we were near > done. Also, some of the people that worked on this have to move on to other tasks. We also have a > need for the intl extension and so would like to see at least a first version become available. > > Considering the above, please don't interpret responses that propose to put in the next > version what some might consider to be enhancements, as anything other than we have run out of time > and man/woman power, but need and can use what is there today. So what you are saying is everyone working on the extension are simply waiting for the 1.0.0-stable release before they move on and will never look back? Thats awesome and the most important reason why this extension cannot go into core. -Hannes