Re: Zend Engine 3

On 24 Nov 2014 12:18, "Nikita Popov" <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > > > Good evening, > > > > Since phpng, int64, and perhaps other future changes in PHP 7 are a pretty > > big change, I think we ought to bump the major version number of the Zend > > Engine, from Zend Engine 2 to Zend Engine 3. > > > > I have a pull request open which would do this, although it needs updating > > to correct extensions checking for ZEND_ENGINE_2: > > https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/829 > > > > Are there any objections to the idea? I realise work on the engine isn’t > > done, but that doesn’t mean we can’t name the new version. After all, we’ve > > named PHP 7, and it doesn’t exist yet, either. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Why do we need this define at all? Imho extensions should be checking > against the API version, rather than a ZEND_ENGINE_N constant. This is more > precise (it's not like extension code stays the same between minor > versions), but the ZEND_ENGINE_N constant also has the problem that it > targets only 5.x, even though the code it guards would usually be relevant > to 7.x as well. Paying to way for now asking someone to know the specific individual API versions and their features, the convenience of saying "I know ZE 3 supports this and ZE2 does not" would be a worth while addition. Especially for newcomers to ext dev. > > Nikita