Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Sterling Hughes
> Zak is already working on license problems, incompatibility and possible > solutions. Wouldn't it be better to give him and MySQL AB a little bit more > time? > What would've been better if MySQL provided a suitable option before they changed their licenses to the GPL. This is MySQL's mess

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: php5 beta

2003-06-21 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 01:32 AM 6/22/2003 +0200, Terje Torkelsen wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 2:15:06 +0200, Sterling Hughes wrote (in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > This is what I can think of for a concrete todo before the beta... > > http://www.php.net/~sterling/php5/BETA > > any thing i missed? anything extraeneous

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Olivier Hill
James Cox wrote: I think this is the most sensible idea posted so far. The notion that we *don't* lose out if we unbundle by default is wrong -- we're going to have so many "my MySQL is broken, HELP!!!" support requests, it's going I completely agree on that. A long time ago, when I started to lear

RE: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread James Cox
> Wouldn't it be better to give [Zak] and MySQL AB a > little bit more time? I think this is the most sensible idea posted so far. The notion that we *don't* lose out if we unbundle by default is wrong -- we're going to have so many "my MySQL is broken, HELP!!!" support requests, it's going to b

Re: [PHP-DEV] about final methods and attributes

2003-06-21 Thread Cristiano Duarte
Thanx Andi, it would help me with the consistency of the CORBA mapping. Cristiano Duarte "Andi Gutmans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu na mensagem news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To be quite honest, I don't see a need for final classes. Talking from my experience, classes which are designed to be final, oft

RE: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Mike Robinson
Georg Richter wrote: > According to the MySQL license, you need a commercial license > when using PHP 4 with MySQL 4.x, cause PHP license isn't > a) OSI approved and b) GPL compatible. Unbelievable. Guess the postgres guys are licking their chops over this. > We have the same problem with ext/my

[PHP-DEV] Re: php5 beta

2003-06-21 Thread Terje Torkelsen
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 2:15:06 +0200, Sterling Hughes wrote (in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > This is what I can think of for a concrete todo before the beta... > > http://www.php.net/~sterling/php5/BETA > > any thing i missed? anything extraeneous? > > -Sterling > how about bug #21669? can

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Georg Richter
On Saturday 21 June 2003 18:14, Sascha Schumann wrote: > There are rumours that MySQL AB does not want to provide a > license exemption. The only consequence is that we should > not steer users into their hands through simplified > deployment. rumors from #php.de ? :) Georg --

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Shane Caraveo
Sascha Schumann wrote: There are rumours that MySQL AB does not want to provide a license exemption. The only consequence is that we should not steer users into their hands through simplified deployment. Derick Rethans wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > >>By the w

Re: [PHP-DEV] about final methods and attributes

2003-06-21 Thread Andi Gutmans
To be quite honest, I don't see a need for final classes. Talking from my experience, classes which are designed to be final, often end up being inherited from at some point or another. This happened to me quite often in C++ when taking other people's/company's code and required fixing their sou

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Zak Greant
On June 21, 2003 14:17, Georg Richter wrote: ... > Zak is already working on license problems, incompatibility and > possible solutions. Wouldn't it be better to give him and MySQL AB a > little bit more time? I had hoped to have the exception done over a week ago, but there have been a few co

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Zak Greant
On June 21, 2003 10:14, Sascha Schumann wrote: ... > There are rumours that MySQL AB does not want to provide a > license exemption. The only consequence is that we should > not steer users into their hands through simplified > deployment. What!?! Given that I am the one working

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Georg Richter
On Saturday 21 June 2003 23:44, Andi Gutmans wrote: Hi Andi, > Do you have a URL? I couldn't find it on the MySQL.com site. check http://www.mysql.com/news/article-81.html -> Read more: MySQL 4.0 In A Nutshell Regards Georg -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscr

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 10:30 PM 6/21/2003 +0200, Georg Richter wrote: On Saturday 21 June 2003 20:58, Andi Gutmans wrote: > By the way, was there an official MySQL announcement about the move to GPL? > Yes they did, but it was not the title of the announcement. :) Do you have a URL? I couldn't find it on the MySQL.com

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Georg Richter
On Saturday 21 June 2003 20:58, Andi Gutmans wrote: > By the way, was there an official MySQL announcement about the move to GPL? > Yes they did, but it was not the title of the announcement. :) Georg -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Georg Richter
Hi all, as maintainer of ext/mysql and ext/mysqli I'm standing between php and mysql, and I spent a lot of time on both extensions, so don't ask me :) Currently bundled libmysql prevents users to violate license. If you need an external lib, you normally download latest stable, which is 4.0.x a

Re: [PHP-DEV] about final methods and attributes

2003-06-21 Thread Cristiano Duarte
Thanx Marcus, it works great ! Cristiano Duarte "Marcus BöRger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu na mensagem news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello Cristiano, > > Saturday, June 21, 2003, 2:07:09 AM, you wrote: > > MB> Hello Cristiano, > > MB> Friday, June 20, 2003, 9:03:33 PM, you wrote: > > CD>> Ok, final

[PHP-DEV] Array behaviour change intentional?

2003-06-21 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
Hi there, It seems that array appending has changed wrt negative indices. I had just documented the new behaviour but now I'm not entirely sure whether I've just documented an unintentional change. Is this new behaviour what is desired (i.e. skipping straight from some negative key to 0 when appe

Re: [PHP-DEV] about final methods and attributes

2003-06-21 Thread Marcus Börger
Hello Cristiano, Saturday, June 21, 2003, 2:07:09 AM, you wrote: MB> Hello Cristiano, MB> Friday, June 20, 2003, 9:03:33 PM, you wrote: CD>> Ok, final methods and attributes are cool, but what about final classes ? CD>> Is it hard to implement ? Or all classes must be able to be extended by CD>

Re: [PHP-DEV] php5 beta

2003-06-21 Thread Marcus Börger
Hello Sterling, Thursday, June 19, 2003, 2:15:06 AM, you wrote: SH> This is what I can think of for a concrete todo before the beta... SH> http://www.php.net/~sterling/php5/BETA SH> any thing i missed? anything extraeneous? What about type hints for arrays ? -- Best regards, Marcus

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Derick Rethans
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Andi Gutmans wrote: > By the way, was there an official MySQL announcement about the move to GPL? Not really... atleast nobody send something to a PHP list about it. I was highly suprised when Arjen told me at a conference, and it looks like they tried to hide it or somethi

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Andi Gutmans
By the way, was there an official MySQL announcement about the move to GPL? Andi At 08:17 PM 6/21/2003 +0200, Andi Gutmans wrote: At 11:43 AM 6/21/2003 -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote: Hey, I'm putting this message out as a feeler. I'm going to go ahead and remove the mysql library from the PHP so

Re: [PHP-DEV] php5 beta

2003-06-21 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 06:18 PM 6/21/2003 +0100, Wez Furlong wrote: I'll port COM if no else will; however, I'm way too busy for this be done by the 30th if that is when you plan to release the beta. I don't see a problem with COM support not being in the beta. It's a small part of PHP usage. Andi -- PHP Internals

Re: [PHP-DEV] php5 beta

2003-06-21 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 07:20 PM 6/21/2003 +0200, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Andi Gutmans wrote: > I don't think it is very important. If no one steps up to do this I > suggest we keep COM broken until someone does so. Isn't COM obsoleted by .Net (and thus ext/com by ext/mono) anyhow? Nope. COM will continue to live e

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Wei He
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Ilia A. wrote: > Most distributions I am aware of already ship with compiled & installed MySQL > libraries. So, in many cases unless you seek to upgrade (or downgrade if 4.X > libs are in place and you need 3.X libs) you won't need to do a thing. Big > distros such as rhat

Re: [PHP-DEV] php5 beta

2003-06-21 Thread Wez Furlong
No, to use .net or mono, you need to have .net or mono installed. COM is always installed. > Isn't COM obsoleted by .Net (and thus ext/com by ext/mono) anyhow? -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] php5 beta

2003-06-21 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Andi Gutmans wrote: > I don't think it is very important. If no one steps up to do this I > suggest we keep COM broken until someone does so. Isn't COM obsoleted by .Net (and thus ext/com by ext/mono) anyhow? -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpe

Re: [PHP-DEV] php5 beta

2003-06-21 Thread Wez Furlong
I'll port COM if no else will; however, I'm way too busy for this be done by the 30th if that is when you plan to release the beta. > >We still need some volunteers for: > > > >a) Porting COM > > I don't think it is very important. If no one steps up to do this I suggest > we keep COM broken until

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Ilia A.
Most distributions I am aware of already ship with compiled & installed MySQL libraries. So, in many cases unless you seek to upgrade (or downgrade if 4.X libs are in place and you need 3.X libs) you won't need to do a thing. Big distros such as rhat will probably already have compiled modules f

Re: [PHP-DEV] php5 beta

2003-06-21 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 11:54 AM 6/21/2003 -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote: I've added some names to the list as per your extension. We still need some volunteers for: a) Porting COM I don't think it is very important. If no one steps up to do this I suggest we keep COM broken until someone does so. b) What is the fin

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 11:43 AM 6/21/2003 -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote: Hey, I'm putting this message out as a feeler. I'm going to go ahead and remove the mysql library from the PHP source tree. This won't affect the extension, it simply means we won't be bundling the *library* with PHP anymore. This is in a larg

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Derick Rethans
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Ilia A. wrote: > On June 21, 2003 11:55 am, Marcus Börger wrote: > > Please disable ext/mysql by default then, too. > > Please don't, if the configure script can find the mysql library needed by the > extension on the system I see no reason why not to enable to mysql extensi

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Wei He
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Ilia A. wrote: > On June 21, 2003 11:55 am, Marcus Börger wrote: > > Please disable ext/mysql by default then, too. > > Please don't, if the configure script can find the mysql library needed by the > extension on the system I see no reason why not to enable to mysql extensi

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Ilia A.
On June 21, 2003 11:55 am, Marcus Börger wrote: > Please disable ext/mysql by default then, too. Please don't, if the configure script can find the mysql library needed by the extension on the system I see no reason why not to enable to mysql extension by default. Given the large number of php +

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Ilia A.
On June 21, 2003 11:43 am, Sterling Hughes wrote: > Hey, > > I'm putting this message out as a feeler. I'm going to go ahead and > remove the mysql library from the PHP source tree. This won't affect > the extension, it simply means we won't be bundling the *library* with > PHP anymore. This is

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Sascha Schumann
> I'm putting this message out as a feeler. I'm going to go ahead and > remove the mysql library from the PHP source tree. This won't affect > the extension, it simply means we won't be bundling the *library* with > PHP anymore. This is in a large part due to MySQL's decision to switch > to usin

Re: [PHP-DEV] about final methods and attributes

2003-06-21 Thread Cristiano Duarte
Hi Timm, My project for the Specialization Degree in Computer Network Design and Application includes the specification, the compiler and the library too. But I'm afraid I will not have enough time to develop all the library. In fact, I haven´t started it yet. I´m still working on the specificatio

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Derick Rethans
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Sterling Hughes wrote: > I'm putting this message out as a feeler. I'm going to go ahead and > remove the mysql library from the PHP source tree. This won't affect > the extension, it simply means we won't be bundling the *library* with > PHP anymore. This is in a large par

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Wei He
I think it would be a good thing. Many time I have to recompile PHP to use it with MySQL to avoid charset warnings. Wei He -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] php5 beta

2003-06-21 Thread Sterling Hughes
I've added some names to the list as per your extension. We still need some volunteers for: a) Porting COM b) What is the final status of mbstring? c) Status on mysqli from the mysql folks. PHP is not OSI approved (yet), will it be ok to keep mysqli in the betas? -Sterling On Sat, 2003-06-21 a

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Wez Furlong
+1 > I'm putting this message out as a feeler. I'm going to go ahead and > remove the mysql library from the PHP source tree. This won't affect > the extension, it simply means we won't be bundling the *library* with > PHP anymore. This is in a large part due to MySQL's decision to switch > to

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Sterling Hughes
Yep, that's my plan :-) -Sterling On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 11:55, Marcus Börger wrote: > Hello Sterling, > > Saturday, June 21, 2003, 5:43:30 PM, you wrote: > > SH> Hey, > > SH> I'm putting this message out as a feeler. I'm going to go ahead and > SH> remove the mysql library from the PHP source

Re: [PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Marcus Börger
Hello Sterling, Saturday, June 21, 2003, 5:43:30 PM, you wrote: SH> Hey, SH> I'm putting this message out as a feeler. I'm going to go ahead and SH> remove the mysql library from the PHP source tree. This won't affect SH> the extension, it simply means we won't be bundling the *library* with S

[PHP-DEV] removing bundled libmysql

2003-06-21 Thread Sterling Hughes
Hey, I'm putting this message out as a feeler. I'm going to go ahead and remove the mysql library from the PHP source tree. This won't affect the extension, it simply means we won't be bundling the *library* with PHP anymore. This is in a large part due to MySQL's decision to switch to using th

[PHP-DEV] PHP 4 Bug Summary Report

2003-06-21 Thread internals
PHP 4 Bug Database summary - http://bugs.php.net Num Status Summary (947 total including feature requests) ===[*Configuration Issues] 20490 Analyzed enable versioning not supported on OSX 21195 Verified Configure warnings/errors 21973 O

Re: [PHP-DEV] about final methods and attributes

2003-06-21 Thread Cristiano Duarte
You´re right, sorry about the final attributes. I´m developing an IDL2PHP5 mapping specification and a compiler. To be full CORBA 2.3 aligned, I´m using Java IDL mapping specification as a base for the PHP IDL specification. CORBA Enums can be mapped as constants (like Universe extension) or class

Re[2]: [PHP-DEV] php5 beta

2003-06-21 Thread Marcus Börger
Hello Andi, Saturday, June 21, 2003, 11:14:28 AM, you wrote: [...] >>p.s.: And i'd still like to have final classes AG> No big deal IMO and not necessary for the beta. quite right :-) -- Best regards, Marcusmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtim

Re: [PHP-DEV] php5 beta

2003-06-21 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 08:15 PM 6/18/2003 -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote: This is what I can think of for a concrete todo before the beta... http://www.php.net/~sterling/php5/BETA any thing i missed? anything extraeneous? These are very small tasks. I suggest we assign owners to each and aim for the 30th of June for

Re: [PHP-DEV] php5 beta

2003-06-21 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 03:46 PM 6/19/2003 +0200, Marcus Börger wrote: Hello Sterling, We need exceptions instead of errors whenever a try/catch block is entered or a constructor gets called. This is a very easy thing to implement but we need a consensus before doing so. You can always throw the exception manually in