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

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Tex Texin wrote: > Pierre, Marcus, et al. > > 1) The project started a year or so ago. A few of us from different > companies had a strong need to see that PHP had international > collation, formats, normalization, grapheme support, and other > functions in a time frame nearer than php 6. The resulting intl > extension has been out for a while, first with collation, then with > some formatters. Stas made announces to the php-i18n list at least as > early as July 17 (possibly earlier). The specs were posted to php-i18n > and there has been discussion on the list over time. > > The manual documentation was announced by Stas for review to this list > as well on Dec 4. > > So there has been opportunity for input on the specs and the project > is above board. No one is "deciding anything about PHP". There have > been 300 downloads since Dec. so some people know about it. There have > not been many requests for changes. I think the major problem is that because discussions about it happen off-list, there is not much exposure on what you're doing and thus little feedback. That's the whole problems with splitting off to a different list for something that you're targetting to include in the core. So I don't think it's that strange that there is now a large group of people being not-so-happy about what you're trying to do here. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ezcomponents.org | http://xdebug.org