Re: quick polls for 5.3
| From: | Kalle Sommer Nielsen | Date: | Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:39:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: quick polls for 5.3 | ||
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> 1) ext/mhash in 5.3. ext/hash has all the functions, so the entire BC break
> will be that "if (extension_loaded('mhash'))" will need fixing if mhash is
> removed (answer both)
> I) enable ext/hash by default
+1
> II) remove ext/mhash
+0
>
> 2) deprecate ereg*. ext/ereg is an extension as of PHP 5.3. Since ext/ereg
> is more or less redundant with ext/preg and is likely to not get much
> unicode love for PHP 6, the question is if we should mark it with a
> E_DEPRECATED in PHP 5.3
+0
>
> 3) resource constants (choose one)
> a) Should we deprecate constant resources (mostly used to emulate STDIN and
> friends)
> b) Should we instead just throw an E_STRICT
> c) Document as is
b
>
> 4) keep ext/phar enabled by default in 5.3?
+1
>
> 5) keep ext/sqlite3 enabled by default in 5.3?
+0
>
> 6) enable mysqlnd by default in 5.3? (answer both)
> I) enable mysqlnd by default
> II) also enable ext/mysql, mysqli und pdo_mysql by default since there will
> be no external dependencies in this case
+1 on both
>
> 7) should Output buffering rewrite MFH? this one comes with some baggage, we
> need enough people to actually have a look at how things are in HEAD and
> make it clear that they will be available for bug fixing and BC issues
> resolving. the risk here is obviously that any BC issues will be hard to
> isolate for end users.
+1
>
> 8) MFH mcrypt cleanups in HEAD. either the make sense or they dont, so
> either (choose one)
> a) revert in HEAD
> b) MFH to 5.3
+0
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Kalle Sommer Nielsen