Re: quick polls for 5.3

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 1:14:31 pm Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > Hi, > > here are a few questions that need to be answered ASAP. > > If at all possible keep your votes as short as possible. I think all > of the above topics have been discussed quite a lot on the list. So I > hope voters can spare the list needless repetition. Instead if you > think that a topic needs to be discussed, put a short note in your > vote under the given topic. If a number of people also think the topic > needs more discussion, then we can open a new thread dedicated to this > topic later this week. > > 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 -1, better to E_DEPRECATE for a version first then remove. > 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 +1 > 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 +0 > 4) keep ext/phar enabled by default in 5.3? +0 > 5) keep ext/sqlite3 enabled by default in 5.3? +1 > 6) enable mysqlnd by default in 5.3? (answer both) > I) enable mysqlnd by default +1 > II) also enable ext/mysql, mysqli und pdo_mysql by default since there > will be no external dependencies in this case +1 > 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. +0 > 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 -- Larry Garfield larry@garfieldtech.com