On Saturday, June 21, 2003, at 11:56 PM, Derick Rethans wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Harrie Hazewinkel wrote:
>> harrie               Sat Jun 21 17:50:02 2003 EDT
>>
>>   Modified files:              (Branch: PHP_4_3)
>>     /php4/ext/snmp   php_snmp.h snmp.c
>>   Log:
>>   Applying the contributed patch of Johan hanne.
>>   The patch enables control on the way the values are returned
>>   into the PHP script, instaed of always strings. Also the type
>>   of the value is now returned when configured to do so.
>>   This enables better management scripts to do more automatic
>>   processing and value calculations.
>
> This is a HUGE feature patch... that should definitely NOT go into a
> stable branch.

I can't believe it. I posted this patch several times. Everybody but Harrie 
ignored it. I even wrote that I hope it gets into 4.3.3. Nobody except Harrie 
replied. Now it's applied and NOW somebody has to claim it's a huge feature 
patch which should not go in. Sorry, but did you actually have a look at the 
patch? It's NOT a huge feature patch.
- It adds the TSRM stuff, but it does it the same way as it's done in the 
other extensions.
- It adds some constants.
- It adds two trivial new functions, both only setting or returning a global.
- It moves the code for the SNMP value retrieval into a seperate function. But 
this is more a cleanup than a feature patch...?!
The last one is the ONLY thing where existing code is modified, and I've 
really tested it extensively. So where's the problem???

You could even see it as a BUGFIX patch. The way SNMP values were returned 
until now was unusable it some situations!

I really really need this patch and I have been applying it to each PHP 
release for more than a year now...

Cheers, Jonny


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