Note, while reading the code I noticed it doing some odd things with strings (see casting away constness in patch) ... this wants a maintainer, I was just getting the build going [and not volunteering] ...
Cheers Joe PS. Sorry about double post ... On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 15:42, Joe Watkins <krak...@gmail.com> wrote: > Afternoon, > > Patch for php7: > https://gist.github.com/krakjoe/549ec38161ecd1ad9b8f16f6cf18657e > > Run with it, or not ... > > Cheers > Joe > > > On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 14:43, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de> > wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> On 19.08.2019 at 12:47, Tobias Frei wrote: >> >> > Today I was asked to contact this list about the 2013-01-01 proposal >> > described in Feature Request 63880. >> > >> > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63880 >> > >> > Please implement some kind of lzma compression, e.g. xz or lzip, >> > alongside gzip and bzip2 in php. >> > >> > The original proposal asked for xz compression; it seems that one may >> > argue in favor of a different implementation such as lzip for reasons I >> > found today at >> > https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html >> > >> > My request, although originally made for xz compression, is about >> > implementing lzma (or any kind of modern, strong) compression in php to >> > hopefully easily replace bzip2 in user applications, such as phpBB's >> > database backup function. >> > >> > Anyone may freely open an RFC or onwiki discussion about this on my >> > behalf whenever they like to, and even if they read this message >> > multiple years later. >> >> Thanks for bringing this topic to internals@! >> >> In my opinion, this extension should start as PECL extension. This >> would allow it to be developed independently of the PHP release cycle, >> and the API could be adapted if necessary. After the extension has been >> stabilized, and if the extension turns out to be generally useful, it >> still could be bundled. >> >> Thanks, >> Christoph >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> >>
