RE: [PHP-DEV] Headsup: PHP7 feature freeze

Hi Matt, > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt Wilmas [mailto:php_lists@realplain.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 4:10 AM > To: Internals; Kalle Sommer Nielsen > Cc: Anatoliy Belsky; Dmitry Stogov; Nikita Popov; Ferenc Kovacs; Xinchen Hui > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Headsup: PHP7 feature freeze > > Hello RMs, all! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kalle Sommer Nielsen" > Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 > > > Howdy > > > > This is a quick heads up that we plan to have the next release of > > 7.0.0 be Beta 1, this marks a feature freeze and from there on, we > > will switch focus on to stabilization, regressions and other bug > > fixes. > > > > Beta 1 is schedule to be tagged and packaged on July 7th and released > > on July 9th which is a small 2 weeks from now to get any remaining > > changes of such in. > > > > If you are in doubt about whether or not your change would be > > considered a 'feature' or have any other questions, then feel free to > > mail us RMs or reply here. > > I intended to reply to this shortly after, and I guess there isn't much reason to > now. :-) I started messing with the parameter parsing stuff, which I thought > would take a couple days max, but I got deep into it. > Message coming sometime soon about that... > > Anyway, I was wanting to do some enhancements to the Postgres extension, > and I was hopeful they could be included for 7 until I saw this message and > thought, "Uh-oh." Until the ZPP thing, I hoped I'd have the basics of the > "features" whipped up by the end of last week (not that I thought anything could > be commited immediately ;-)). > > Is this the shortest Alpha period ever? (Serious question. :-)) If I had really > jumped on the work (I had to get up to speed on some new-to-me internals), I > could have been maybe a month sooner. But when I saw the wiki timetable, I > thought there'd been until August or so after 3-4 Alphas... > *shrug* So if there are 9 releases before final, there's going to be 4-5 Betas and > 4-5 RCs? I thought there'd be more "even" distribution. > > Well, the Postgres stuff comes from the fact that I just "discovered" it (truly, in- > depth) about 10 weeks ago. (Life changing!) Of course shortly after something > led me to start looking into PHP's code, after already being disappointed. As I > analyzed things more, I figured I could actually fulfill my own wishlist. :-D > > The main "feature" is very straight-forward (almost search-and-replace!). > The other feature group I'm not sure what thoughts will be about > usability/implementation, but it shouldn't be that big either, and totally isolated > from existing functionality. > > BTW, there are *several* other issues with the extension's code, that I started > noticing right away. I literally lost track, didn't note them; but hopefully can > clean them all up. Of course these can all be done, and also applied to 5.6, > AFAIK. > > If we can have these changes sometime, it'd be nice if it was before 7.1... > Of course, for my personal use, I really don't care since I can use them right > away. But I think the PHP-Postgres community needs them and would be glad! > Thanks for the suggestion. Do you already have some code to show? Regards Anatol