On May 21, 2004, at 8:32 AM, Zeev Suraski wrote:
At 13:36 21/05/2004, Derick Rethans wrote:On Fri, 21 May 2004, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> Well the main problem is that awk might behave differently on all sorts of
> non-GNU systems (Sun, AIX, HP etc.).
> Is it important to include this in 5.0?
I think it is important enough, as there is currently on way of doing this correctly, and it has been a (minor) problem for ages.
If it's been a minor problem for ages, then why the sudden rush to put it in just before coming out with a major version..? We seem to have enough momentum here to start a nice 5.1 as soon as 5.0 is released, in just 4 or 5 weeks... I wouldn't be the party pooper if everybody else thinks it's a good idea, and maybe it's because to me the build system always looked like black magic, but I feel that doing this change so late in the process is begging for trouble :)
It's a major problem for PDO, which won't be in 5.0, but will (hopefully) be in 5.1 and which we'd like to encourage people to use with 5.0 via PECL. As modules become more inter-dependent, and as they try to use/interact with 'core' features like simplexml, curl, etc. this becomes a bigger and bigger hassle.
George
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