Re: [RFC] [Discussion] UUID
| From: | Larry Garfield | Date: | Wed, 24 May 2017 15:04:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] [Discussion] UUID | ||
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On 05/24/2017 04:31 AM, lists@rhsoft.net wrote:
Am 24.05.2017 um 11:27 schrieb Dan Ackroyd:It doesn't have to be a PECL library. I agree that a project requiring a PECL library greatly limits its potential reach, but with Composer user-space libraries are totally easy to install. There's a nice and popular UUID implementation already: https://packagist.org/packages/ramsey/uuid Note: That doesn't mean adding UUID functionality to PHP core/standard lib is a bad idea; discussing that is fine. But the "no one will be able to use it otherwise" argument is substantially less compelling than it was even 5 years ago. --Larry Garfieldbecause as developer in reality you can not use and rely on features which needs to install some pecl-library when it is supposed to be used on typical hosting packagesHey internals! I haven't written the RFC yet,Please don't forget to include in the RFC a justification for why this should be part of PHP core, rather than a library