Re: [RFC] [Discussion] UUID

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > On 05/24/2017 04:31 AM, lists@rhsoft.net wrote: > >> >> >> Am 24.05.2017 um 11:27 schrieb Dan Ackroyd: >> >>> Hey 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 >>> >> >> because 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 packages >> > > 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 Garfield By the way there already is a PECL package for a UUID library: https://pecl.php.net/package/uuid. I would like to see compelling reasons why we shouldn't rally around that package.