Re: Re: ZendEngine2 / zend_ini_parser.y zend_ini_scanner.l
| From: | Sara Golemon | Date: | Mon, 17 May 2004 19:17:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: ZendEngine2 / zend_ini_parser.y zend_ini_scanner.l | ||
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> There is no such thing as a feature freeze in PHP land, historically.
> And that minor bug has already been fixed.
>
Oh what wonderful news, that means I can start commit patches again! Let's
see, I've got that source binding patch for the network stuff, I've got
those compression filters that I thought were going to have to wait till 5.1
and be supported in 5.0 as a PECL package only so that's good. Oh and
here's that nice little guy to support HTTP/1.1 chunked encoding, inline
gzip deflates, and connection pooling... I guess if there's no feature
freeze in PHP land then all this stuff can go in right now.
Either there is a feature freeze or there isn't. I appreciate the
frustration of having to wait through long and tedious minor version bumps.
I also appreciate the fact that historically PHP versioning has been sloppy,
but that's not a justification for contuing bad behavior.
> Let me add to this: isn't this what "open source" is about? The bug did
> not manifest itself on my system (FreeBSD). You pointed out the issue. I
> fixed it. Cooperation prevailed. What's the big deal?
>
Let me respond by saying there wasn't a big deal. I asked if this was too
late in the RC cycle to justify a non-critical exception to the feature
freeze. The response of "Andi/Zeev okayed it" was fine. But now you're
standing there telling me that there is no such thing as a feature freeze
and THAT is a big deal. That promotes chaos and a bad end product. I don't
give a rodent's hind quarters about the ini variable substitution patch, I
care about putting out a good product. I care about knowing that there's
nothing in the final release that hasn't been well tested. I care that I
only saw that minor bug because it broke compilation in general, and god
knows if it broke something less obvious. Has anyone tried this with the
ever-problematic browsecap.ini file?
-Sara