Re: Merge HashTable and zend_array into a single data structure.

Hey François, > On 31 Dec 2014, at 17:50, François Laupretre <francois@tekwire.net> wrote: > > "Showing 46 changed files with 193 additions and 204 deletions". I am sorry but I > can't analyze the impacts of your change, just from the patch. Did you write an RFC that would > explain the impact, especially for extension writers ? Is that because of the patch’s size? 200+/- isn’t that big for a patch. > More generally, what is the rule ? Is there a list of people who can introduce changes in the > code, and even BC breaks in the C API, without writing RFCs, or is it just a question of > rights/karma on the source repository ? I say that because it is especially hard to have a proposed > change accepted on the mailing list, as several 'watchdogs' are there to dismiss ideas > coming from people they don't know. I don’t think there’s a hard and fast rule. We usually don’t worry as much about internal API and ABI breaks as we do about userland BC breaks, and in this case this is for a major version, so significant internal breakage is probably acceptable. Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/