Hello all,
All the recent discussions about namespaces, have left many of us
wondering if our implementation is rock solid or not. However the
discussions were not really well organized. This is why I am thankful
that Marcus and Felipe have spend the better part of this Sunday to
write an RFC [1] that hopefully summarizes all the key concerns. Also
they have created a patch that they feel addresses the concerns.
So I ask you all to review the RFC and provide feedback. If you feel
something is missing, the best approach is probably to work with
Marcus and Felipe directly to get your concerns added. Only if there
is a difference of opinion in this process should this be brought to
internals. This way we can hopefully keep the discussion more focused
on actual differences, while making sure that the RFC covers most
concerns in one coherent document. If there are very large and
fundamental differences in opinion I encourage the creation of an
alternate RFC (and patch in case the RFC requires changes to the
codebase - which means you can also write an RFC to clarify the
current behavior on why it makes sense).
As you all hopefully know we have planned an alpha2 release for next
Tuesday [2]. At this stage I guess we should continue with that plan
and in case we need to make any bigger changes to namespaces (like
this RFC suggests), we will probably have to accept an alpha3 release
within 2-3 weeks time. Can't say I am happy about this, but I am quite
positive that bringing this discussion to a slightly more formal level
will give us a chance to make sure that in the end we can release PHP
5.3.0 with confidence.
regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
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[1] http://wiki.php.net/rfc/namespacecurlies
[2] http://wiki.php.net/todo/php53
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