On 9/9/07, Ilia Alshanetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its been about a week since RFS for features to go into 5.3 has gone > out and while there was not a "flood" of ideas there is a substantial > list of key changes people would like to go into this release. I've > compiled a list of all of the suggestions I've received, they are > listed below in a form that will hopefully make it easy for people to > vote their yeys and nays. My hope that we can reach an agreement > within 1-2 weeks so 5.3 can be branched and work on it can begin. > > List of Feature Ideas > ---------------------------- > > 1) Backport the namespaces patch for PHP 6 > > 1 0 -1
1 > 2) Symlink the intl extension from PECL, but leave it disabled by > default as is the case with all extensions dependent on external libs > > 1 0 -1 Too early, we don't even have a release now. If it is stable by the end of the year (before RC1), then +1. > 3) Apply the Late Static Binding Patch > > 1 0 -1 1 > 4) Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch > > 1 0 -1 0 > 5) Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (patch is > already available) > > 1 0 -1 +1 > 6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes > > 1 0 -1 > > 7) Introduce mysqlind library into core and use it as a backend for > PDO and mysqli extensions (possibly enabling them by default) > > 1 0 -1 optional not by default. > 8) OpenID enabling patch for OpenSSL and PHP 5 > > 1 0 -1 +1 (there is nothing to vote on btw...) > 9) Add array_replace[_recursive] functions (patch is already available) > > 1 0 -1 +1 > 10) Split off deprecation from E_STRICT into E_DEPRECATED > > 1 0 -1 +1 > 11) Merge the zend_arg_info const'ify patch > > 1 0 -1 +1 > 12) Merge the GCC 4 -fvisibility patch > > 1 0 -1 0 > 13) Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli > > 1 0 -1 0 > 14) Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it by > default) > > 1 0 -1 -1 > 15) Merge Matt's ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG() optimization patch > > 1 0 -1 1 > 16) Introduce new php.ini files parser/scanner + CGI/FastCGI? > "htaccess" style ini file support > > 1 0 -1 +1, for the record, it allows what htscanner does (http://pecl.php.net/htscanner) but adding a tons of good things. More to come very soon, docs from me and patch from Jani. > 17) Merge __callStatic patch from PHP 6 > > 1 0 -1 1 > 18) Introduce concept of "strict classes" that do not permit dynamic > property creation > > 1 0 -1 1 --Pierre -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
