RE: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Move phpng to master

> -----Original Message----- > From: Matteo Beccati [mailto:php@beccati.com] > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 1:08 PM > To: internals@lists.php.net > Cc: Sebastian Bergmann > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: Move phpng to master > > To be honest I don't think we're anywhere near the point where it's safe > to > merge phpng to master. Why? People aren't supposed to run production or even development code initially from master. I don't know how many people here were around when PHP 5, 4 and 3 came to be - but when you're dealing with a major version with such massive code changes, you don't get everything right in day one. It will require a community effort - which is exactly what we're trying to achieve here. I don't think that community effort will happen if we don't move it to master and give developers the needed clarity and motivation to work on this. > Also, one thing that might have been overlooked is that merging phpng to > master would completely bypass the voting phase on > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/fast_zpp Our thinking is to use this only for performance sensitive functions that actually move the needle, as opposed to using it across the board - which was the original thinking behind the fast_zpp API. Fast_zpp for this limited set of functions is now a part of phpng; We can decide whether or not we revisit the proposal for using fast_zpp more widely, although as I said in the past, I'm not too fond of the new macro-based APIs myself. For performance sensitive functions that are used a lot, though, I think it makes perfect sense. Zeev