Hi Matt,
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Wilmas [mailto:php_li...@realplain.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 4:10 AM
To: Internals; Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Cc: Anatoliy Belsky; Dmitry Stogov; Nikita Popov; Ferenc Kovacs; Xinchen
Hui
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Headsup: PHP7 feature freeze
Hello RMs, all!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kalle Sommer Nielsen"
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015
> Howdy
>
> This is a quick heads up that we plan to have the next release of
> 7.0.0 be Beta 1, this marks a feature freeze and from there on, we
> will switch focus on to stabilization, regressions and other bug
> fixes.
>
> Beta 1 is schedule to be tagged and packaged on July 7th and released
> on July 9th which is a small 2 weeks from now to get any remaining
> changes of such in.
>
> If you are in doubt about whether or not your change would be
> considered a 'feature' or have any other questions, then feel free to
> mail us RMs or reply here.
I intended to reply to this shortly after, and I guess there isn't much
reason to
now. :-) I started messing with the parameter parsing stuff, which I
thought
would take a couple days max, but I got deep into it.
Message coming sometime soon about that...
Anyway, I was wanting to do some enhancements to the Postgres extension,
and I was hopeful they could be included for 7 until I saw this message
and
thought, "Uh-oh." Until the ZPP thing, I hoped I'd have the basics of
the
"features" whipped up by the end of last week (not that I thought
anything
could
be commited immediately ;-)).
Is this the shortest Alpha period ever? (Serious question. :-)) If I had
really
jumped on the work (I had to get up to speed on some new-to-me
internals),
I
could have been maybe a month sooner. But when I saw the wiki timetable,
I
thought there'd been until August or so after 3-4 Alphas...
*shrug* So if there are 9 releases before final, there's going to be 4-5
Betas and
4-5 RCs? I thought there'd be more "even" distribution.
Well, the Postgres stuff comes from the fact that I just "discovered" it
(truly, in-
depth) about 10 weeks ago. (Life changing!) Of course shortly after
something
led me to start looking into PHP's code, after already being
disappointed.
As I
analyzed things more, I figured I could actually fulfill my own wishlist.
:-D
The main "feature" is very straight-forward (almost search-and-replace!).
The other feature group I'm not sure what thoughts will be about
usability/implementation, but it shouldn't be that big either, and
totally
isolated
from existing functionality.
BTW, there are *several* other issues with the extension's code, that I
started
noticing right away. I literally lost track, didn't note them; but
hopefully can
clean them all up. Of course these can all be done, and also applied to
5.6,
AFAIK.
If we can have these changes sometime, it'd be nice if it was before
7.1...
Of course, for my personal use, I really don't care since I can use them
right
away. But I think the PHP-Postgres community needs them and would be
glad!
Thanks for the suggestion. Do you already have some code to show?
