RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Integrating Zend Optimizer+ into the PHP distribution

> -----Original Message----- > From: kalle.php@gmail.com [mailto:kalle.php@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Kalle > Sommer Nielsen > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:45 PM > To: Zeev Suraski > Cc: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Integrating Zend Optimizer+ into the PHP > distribution > > 2013/1/29 Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>: > > The RFC explains the pros and cons of doing that, I don't really have > > any additional reasons to add beyond what I already put there. I > > believe the pros outweigh the cons by a good considerable margin, but > > that's what the vote would be about. Perhaps the one thing worth > > adding is that the people who worked on Optimizer+ are all major > > php.net contributors, including Dmitry, Stas, Andi and myself - it's not some > alien artifact. > > I don't doubt any of your abilities, what I do doubt is that how we can consider > an outside project directly into the core. APC would without a doubt be up to > pair if there was more people willingly to dwell into it (yes dwell as many people > see it as an alien artifact because it touches and modifies some "unusual" things > that the average extension developer don't). I wasn't talking about our abilities, but about our 'outsideness'. Yes, it is/was a closed source component, but it's by the same people that have written a huge deal of PHP's scripting engine. I'd would of course prefer that we evaluate the proposal based on the substance and not on other factors, but that said, I fully respect your position and wouldn't hold it against you if you vote 'no'... Zeev