Re: RC1

Hello Zeev, Wednesday, February 4, 2004, 7:20:47 PM, you wrote: > Hey, > As you must have realized Andi and I have resolved some of the key > remaining issues for PHP 5 (and we still are). > Due to fact that some of these changes have been pretty big changes we > suggest to turn the RC1 we wanted to release at the end of January to a > beta 4 by the end of next week. > If everything goes smoothly after that, we think RC1 should follow two > weeks later. That makes no sense. We still have a lot of open issues so we should calm down a bit and care for creating a working thing instead for the earliest time we could deliver. > Also, Dmitry has pretty much finished his work on doing a > major rewrite of the SOAP extension. We think it would be cool to include > it in Beta 4 (it will be feature-frozen by that time) and then go for > inclusion in PHP 5. > A couple of issues we'd like to decide onbefore we go out with beta 4 are: > (a) Failure return value of FETCH_RESOURCE and the default return value - > should we change it to be FALSE? Today it's NULL, which is inconsistent > with most of the functions in PHP which return FALSE on failure. The > downside is that changing it may break scripts that check the return value > with === or !== In several places you must now do: $res = func(); if ($res !== NULL && $res !== false) ... plus you have to read lots of documentation when to use what. So i am all for making it a bit consistent. Also most ppl used !== false because most ppl didn't knew the return NULL for out ouf boundaries. So i see nothing to care about what we'd loose. > (b) Default inclusion of the SOAP extension +1 prbably not default enabled for 5.0 and we need to change to php_error_docref() and have a look on ZTS which is stupidly solved right now (many unneccesary TSRMLS_FETCH()). -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net