On Wednesday 12 November 2008 1:14:31 pm Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here are a few questions that need to be answered ASAP.
>
> If at all possible keep your votes as short as possible. I think all
> of the above topics have been discussed quite a lot on the list. So I
> hope voters can spare the list needless repetition. Instead if you
> think that a topic needs to be discussed, put a short note in your
> vote under the given topic. If a number of people also think the topic
> needs more discussion, then we can open a new thread dedicated to this
> topic later this week.
>
> 1) ext/mhash in 5.3. ext/hash has all the functions, so the entire BC
> break will be that "if (extension_loaded('mhash'))" will need fixing
> if mhash is removed (answer both)
> I) enable ext/hash by default

+1

> II) remove ext/mhash

-1, better to E_DEPRECATE for a version first then remove.

> 2) deprecate ereg*. ext/ereg is an extension as of PHP 5.3. Since ext/
> ereg is more or less redundant with ext/preg and is likely to not get
> much unicode love for PHP 6, the question is if we should mark it with
> a E_DEPRECATED in PHP 5.3

+1

> 3) resource constants (choose one)
> a) Should we deprecate constant resources (mostly used to emulate
> STDIN and friends)
> b) Should we instead just throw an E_STRICT
> c) Document as is

+0

> 4) keep ext/phar enabled by default in 5.3?

+0

> 5) keep ext/sqlite3 enabled by default in 5.3?

+1

> 6) enable mysqlnd by default in 5.3? (answer both)
> I) enable mysqlnd by default

+1

> II) also enable ext/mysql, mysqli und pdo_mysql by default since there
> will be no external dependencies in this case

+1

> 7) should Output buffering rewrite MFH? this one comes with some
> baggage, we need enough people to actually have a look at how things
> are in HEAD and make it clear that they will be available for bug
> fixing and BC issues resolving. the risk here is obviously that any BC
> issues will be hard to isolate for end users.

+0

> 8) MFH mcrypt cleanups in HEAD. either the make sense or they dont, so
> either (choose one)
> a) revert in HEAD
> b) MFH to 5.3

+0

-- 
Larry Garfield
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