Re: HEADS UP: Upcoming Feature Freeze for PHP 5.5.0

hi Anthony, On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Anthony Ferrara <ircmaxell@gmail.com> wrote: > Pierre et al, > >> I would prefer to have it in pecl and merge once ready/cleaned up. >> Yes, same idea than with APC, except that it could be faster (for what >> I read, waiting to see the sources). Also we can review and do the >> changes more easily. > > > Well, I think the one issue with doing it in PECL first is that it prevents > some deeper engine integration that could benefit the implementation > significantly. > > With that said, I think it's a bit too tight to try to merge this in for the > 5.5 beta freeze. Given the current RFC process requires a minimum of 2 weeks > (1 of comments and 1 of voting), it feels tight. I'm not saying that I think > we should stick to the numbers hard in this particular case, but it's also > not a trivial patch, and I feel that rushing wouldn't be the best idea. > > So with that said, may I suggest that we add 1 more round of Alpha to the > 5.5 release cycle, with the specific intent of merging this in (assuming the > implementation goes well). So we'd be talking about adding approximately 2 > weeks to the cycle, but it would ease the time and implementation pressures > that could otherwise cause issues. I think this feature is worth pushing 5.5 > back slightly, but at the same time not delaying it indefinitely until this > gets in. So if in 4 weeks (the time until the beta, under this strategy) > this isn't ready, it wouldn't make 5.5. But at the same time it gives us > enough time to implement it, understand the implementation and make a > decision that's based on a concrete implementation than an "in-progress" > one. > > Thoughts? It sounds good to me. However I would still like to have it in pecl so we can improve for php 5.3/4 as well. Or we will have to duplicate the efforts between APC and optimizer for the next years. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org