I'm starting to wonder if I'm sending this to the correct list. It's been another two weeks since my last email and I still have yet to receive a response. In fact, I haven't heard a thing from anyone since I sent the first patch out (as requested) back on August 10th.
Could somebody (anybody) please email me a response when you get this? If you could tell me what I need to do and/or who I need to send this to in order to illicit an answer, I would be extremely grateful for your advice! I would be even more grateful (for whatever that's worth) if you have any thoughts on the latest date patch I sent. Thanks! --Kris On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Kris Craig <kris.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's been a couple months since I heard anything, so I wanted to check the > status of my request and update you on my efforts. Things got pretty busy > so I didn't have much time to work on this in August, but the last couple > weeks I've been able to really dive into it. > > The latest patch is attached (based off 5.3.3 r303757 now). As you can > see, it's no longer just a hacky proof-of-concept like the previous patch > sent out. This actually makes full use of the formulas and has been > thoroughly tested. > > The only issue I'm running into is precision. You'll notice I've got a ton > of type casting all over the place (including a lot of unnecessary long > doubles lol) which I'll have cleaned-up in the next patch. These formulas > are accurate to within a few seconds (over the next several thousand years > at least), but the level of precision required is a bit much for standard > floating points to handle. As a result, the equinox/solstice start dates > are off by about 6-14 minutes when compiled on stock Ubuntu 10.04 and 0-7 > minutes when compiled on Windows (VC9). Is the PHP source currently making > use of any arbitrary precision libraries (like MPFR, etc) anywhere? That > would easily solve this rounding issue and enable me to put together some > PHPT tests with predictable results. > > > Also, I would like to ping for an update on my SVN account request. If > there is anything further you need me to do for you in order to complete > this process, I will be more than happy to do it. > > > Thanks! > > --Kris > > > > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Kris Craig <kris.cr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Woops, sorry. Here's the file renamed to .txt. Thanks for the tip! >> >> >> --Kris >> >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Michael Maclean <m...@php.net> wrote: >> >>> On 10/08/10 20:28, Kris Craig wrote: >>> >>>> Sorry, I guess it would help if I actually attached the patch..... Here >>>> it is. >>>> >>> >>> The list strips attachments with filenames ending in something other than >>> .txt - resend or perhaps put it online somewhere? >>> >>> -- >>> Cheers, >>> Michael >>> >> >> >
