Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Lester Caine
Tijnema wrote: Yes, that's what I meant to say, they can be implemented on top of, just like the above mentioned json, it is implemented on top of too. But, that means that a regular PHP programmer doesn't need PHP5 for his scripts (except for OO if they want). Do you think it matters to them if

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Larry Garfield
Because he's Richard. He always does that. You should see him on php-general. :-) On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Olivier Hill wrote: > Is there a reason why the last 10 messages on this thread are coming from > you? > > It might just be me, but answering in the same email would be great. > > Olivie

Re: [PHP-DEV] Simple Namespace Proposal

2007-07-11 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
But some functions ARE so super-common, across the board, that I just plain don't want them buried in some namespace... Sure, why not put them into separate file then? I understand we're forcing some structure here, but I think actually it's good - and many other languages have it either by de

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Larry Garfield
On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Jeff Griffiths wrote: > If you're writing an app that does a lot of json or xml parsing or > output, *even if you don't use the class keyword anywhere in your own > code* PHP5 is a better language than PHP4. Drupal is a great example of > this because even though Drupal

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Tomas Kuliavas
>> Unicode code points can be defined with \u, but PHP6 breaks >> existing octal and hex escape sequences. I don't understand what this means... >>> >>> I think I know... >>> >>> I have code like this, somewhere: >>> >>> if (preg_match("|[\xF0-\xFF]|", $data)){ >>> $data = un_m

Re: [PHP-DEV] Apache handler with Multiple PHP versions

2007-07-11 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
chris# wrote: >> It was possible to have PHP3 and PHP4 both as modules, I think, but >> that was an anomoly? > So which one of the developers broke this /feature/ in 5? ;) This wasn't supported on all platforms in 4 either because it relied on the ability to created versioned shared libs. It was

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
Richard Lynch wrote: > On Tue, July 10, 2007 7:06 pm, Larry Garfield wrote: >> If 90% of the strings in use would work fine if treated as unicode, >> then it >> would make sense to just always assume Unicode unless explicitly >> specified >> otherwise. > > If that 10% includes enough users who hav

Re: [PHP-DEV] Apache handler with Multiple PHP versions

2007-07-11 Thread chris#
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:25:32 -0500 (CDT), "Richard Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, July 11, 2007 6:13 pm, Tijnema wrote: >> On 7/12/07, Jani Taskinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> A lot easier (and works already) is to install PHP as CGI/FastCGI >>> (one version or all of them, one

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Olivier Hill
Is there a reason why the last 10 messages on this thread are coming from you? It might just be me, but answering in the same email would be great. Olivier On 7/11/07, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Seems to me... Both need to be done. Do both, or pick one if you can't do both, and

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Larry Garfield
On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Richard Lynch wrote: > And did I dream the thread on this way back when where it was stated > that Unicode was backwards-compatible, so this wouldn't be a problem? > > Yet now it seems that UTF-16 is *not* backwards-compatible, and this > seems like a pretty big problem

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Lynch
Seems to me... Both need to be done. Do both, or pick one if you can't do both, and somebody else will do the other. That's how FLOSS works. :-) On Wed, July 11, 2007 12:33 am, Evert | Rooftop wrote: > One final question.. > > should I assume while converting code "unicode.semantics" is on or >

RE: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, July 10, 2007 11:30 am, Andi Gutmans wrote: > What I really think we need to do for this release, which we haven't > been good at doing in the past, is build a PHP Compatibility Team > which > tries to port many applications to PHP 6 and finds the issues in doing > this port (both with unic

Re: [PHP-DEV] Apache handler with Multiple PHP versions

2007-07-11 Thread chris#
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:13:33 +0200, Tijnema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/12/07, Jani Taskinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A lot easier (and works already) is to install PHP as CGI/FastCGI >> (one version or all of them, one can be module of course) and define the >> required PHP version b

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, July 9, 2007 5:24 pm, Christopher Jones wrote: > > I also think we shouldn't backport features to PHP5. We should I believe the only serious reason FOR this is if you want to drop the semantics OFF in PHP 6... If getting new features requires upgrading to 6 and taking the Unicode stuff t

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, July 10, 2007 7:06 pm, Larry Garfield wrote: > If 90% of the strings in use would work fine if treated as unicode, > then it > would make sense to just always assume Unicode unless explicitly > specified > otherwise. If that 10% includes enough users who have written millions of line of co

Re: [PHP-DEV] Simple Namespace Proposal

2007-07-11 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 20:57 -0400, David Coallier wrote: > > If you want to do functional programming then go ahead, if you want to > do OOP, then do real OOP, not sub-oop or some php4-oop. Pray tell... what exactly is "real OOP"? This sounds like it might be something extremely subjective and po

Re: [PHP-DEV] Simple Namespace Proposal

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, July 11, 2007 7:57 pm, David Coallier wrote: > If you want to do functional programming then go ahead, if you want to > do OOP, then do real OOP, not sub-oop or some php4-oop. Many users, for many tasks, have absolutely zero need to do any OOP at all. And bloating their PHP for OOP they d

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 19:54 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote: > On Wed, July 11, 2007 7:48 pm, Jeff Griffiths wrote: > > Richard Lynch wrote: > >> On Wed, July 11, 2007 4:40 pm, Tijnema wrote: > >>> Except for the OO, I don't see anything that can't be done in PHP4, > >>> while it can be done in PHP5. So

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, July 11, 2007 3:11 am, Richard Quadling wrote: > On 11/07/07, Evert | Rooftop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Larry Garfield wrote: >> > >> > Top 10 by what metric? If I had to guess based on market share, >> I'd say >> > (unordered): >> > >> > Drupal >> > Squirrelmail >> > WordPress >> > ph

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, July 9, 2007 1:41 pm, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > Once again, you're trying to work with bytes inside Unicode strings, > which just does not make sense. >From our perspective, you've gone and changed a fundamental data structure out from under us, in a non-backwards-compatible way, and broken

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread David Coallier
On 7/11/07, Tijnema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/11/07, Jeff Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > chris# wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:30:26 -0500, Larry Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > >> The claim that is still repeated > >> that one "has to" rewrite everything to be OO in

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, July 9, 2007 3:13 am, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote: > On 7/9/07, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Anybody who actually NEEDS Unicode ought to be the ones who have to >> type a new keyword or something, not the bazillion users who have no >> need for Unicode and likely never will...

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, July 9, 2007 3:07 am, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: > Unicode code points can be defined with \u, but PHP6 breaks > existing octal and hex escape sequences. >>> >>> I don't understand what this means... >> >> I think I know... >> >> I have code like this, somewhere: >> >> if (preg_match("|

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, July 9, 2007 3:06 am, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >> But now \xF0 isn't going to be ASCII 128 anymore, is it? > > ASCII doesn't have any characters beyond 0x7f AFAIK, but it doesn't > matter, I get what you mean. \xF0 in unicode mode would be U+00F0 of > course. Now how preg_match should hand

Re: [PHP-DEV] Simple Namespace Proposal

2007-07-11 Thread David Coallier
On 7/11/07, Richard Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, July 9, 2007 4:58 pm, Stefan Priebsch wrote: > I know, and I use spl_autoload_register. But then I would blatantly > suggest to remove __autoload() in PHP6 and force SPL to be compiled > into > PHP. Deprecate in 6, remove in 7 might be

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, July 11, 2007 7:48 pm, Jeff Griffiths wrote: > Richard Lynch wrote: >> On Wed, July 11, 2007 4:40 pm, Tijnema wrote: >>> Except for the OO, I don't see anything that can't be done in PHP4, >>> while it can be done in PHP5. Some workarounds are maybe needed, >>> but >>> it mostly doesn't req

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Richard Lynch wrote: On Wed, July 11, 2007 4:40 pm, Tijnema wrote: Except for the OO, I don't see anything that can't be done in PHP4, while it can be done in PHP5. Some workarounds are maybe needed, but it mostly doesn't require more than 10 lines of PHP code extra. The SOAP / XML stuff is li

Re: [PHP-DEV] Simple Namespace Proposal

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, July 9, 2007 4:58 pm, Stefan Priebsch wrote: > I know, and I use spl_autoload_register. But then I would blatantly > suggest to remove __autoload() in PHP6 and force SPL to be compiled > into > PHP. Deprecate in 6, remove in 7 might be a better strategy... Otherwise you'll hear: "Oh, I ca

Re: [PHP-DEV] Simple Namespace Proposal

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Mon, July 9, 2007 2:49 am, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: >> +1 for braces. >> >> > function >> super_common_function_every_namespace_in_my_project_uses(){ >> } >> >> namespace A::B { >> function foo() { >> //arcana of A::B stuff >> } >> } >> ?> > > That's what I would like to a

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, July 11, 2007 4:40 pm, Tijnema wrote: > Except for the OO, I don't see anything that can't be done in PHP4, > while it can be done in PHP5. Some workarounds are maybe needed, but > it mostly doesn't require more than 10 lines of PHP code extra. The SOAP / XML stuff is like night and day.

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 01:22 +0200, Tijnema wrote: > Yes, that's what I meant to say, they can be implemented on top of, > just like the above mentioned json, it is implemented on top of too. You can also use Assembler for doing anything PHP can do - and chances are high that this is faster than us

Re: [PHP-DEV] Always enable mail() function

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, July 10, 2007 4:49 pm, Jani Taskinen wrote: >> I'd like to commit the attached patch which should always enable >> mail(), >> any objections? +1 I don't see any reason why I should have to install sendmail before I install PHP. PHP is way more important than sendmail, after all. :-) It'

Re: [PHP-DEV] Apache handler with Multiple PHP versions

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Lynch
On Wed, July 11, 2007 6:13 pm, Tijnema wrote: > On 7/12/07, Jani Taskinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A lot easier (and works already) is to install PHP as CGI/FastCGI >> (one version or all of them, one can be module of course) and define >> the >> required PHP version by the file suffix.. >> >>

Re: [PHP-DEV] Apache handler with Multiple PHP versions

2007-07-11 Thread Johannes Schlüter
Hi On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 01:13 +0200, Tijnema wrote: > > I know this is possible, and I believe it is possible in Apache too > with some kind of hack? > But this still doesn't solve a lot of problems, but will generate a > lot more with portable code. Take a bulletin board for example, there > ar

Re: [PHP-DEV] Apache handler with Multiple PHP versions

2007-07-11 Thread Guilherme Blanco
Hi Tijnema, I think here is something that might interest you: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3472.html Regards, On 7/11/07, Tijnema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/12/07, Jani Taskinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A lot easier (and works already) is to install PHP as CGI/FastCGI >

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Tijnema
On 7/12/07, Jeff Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tijnema wrote: > On 7/11/07, Jeff Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> - file_get_contents() > PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5 D'oh! Thanks for the history lesson. ;) >> - simplexml / DOM parsing / libxml2 >> - json_encode|decode > JSON

Re: [PHP-DEV] Apache handler with Multiple PHP versions

2007-07-11 Thread Tijnema
On 7/12/07, Jani Taskinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A lot easier (and works already) is to install PHP as CGI/FastCGI (one version or all of them, one can be module of course) and define the required PHP version by the file suffix.. --Jani Hello Jani: I know this is possible, and I believe i

Re: [PHP-DEV] Apache handler with Multiple PHP versions

2007-07-11 Thread Jani Taskinen
A lot easier (and works already) is to install PHP as CGI/FastCGI (one version or all of them, one can be module of course) and define the required PHP version by the file suffix.. --Jani Tijnema kirjoitti: Hello developers, The thread about dropping support for PHP4 gave me a new idea, havi

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Jeff Griffiths
Tijnema wrote: On 7/11/07, Jeff Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... - file_get_contents() PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5 D'oh! Thanks for the history lesson. - simplexml / DOM parsing / libxml2 - json_encode|decode JSON PECL extension can be installed for PHP >= 4.3.0 It *can* be, but it

[PHP-DEV] Apache handler with Multiple PHP versions

2007-07-11 Thread Tijnema
Hello developers, The thread about dropping support for PHP4 gave me a new idea, having multiple PHP versions to be loaded by the Apache2handler SAPI. The idea: I was thinking about something like the shebang(#!) line used in bash/perl/python and even PHP scripts. But this time not for the progr

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Tijnema
On 7/11/07, Jeff Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: chris# wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:30:26 -0500, Larry Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> The claim that is still repeated >> that one "has to" rewrite everything to be OO in order to port to PHP 5 >> is, >> quite simply, FUD. > Tr

Re: [PHP-DEV] Mid-term Update for Cycle Collector (Google Summer of Code Project)

2007-07-11 Thread chris#
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:43:19 -0700, "David Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, everyone. My name is David Wang and I am one of the students > participating in Google Summer of Code this year. As you may remember, > my project is to implement a garbage collector for circular references > in

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread chris#
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:12:35 -0700, Jeff Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > chris# wrote: >> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:30:26 -0500, Larry Garfield > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... >>> The claim that is still repeated >>> that one "has to" rewrite everything to be OO in order to port to PHP 5

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread chris#
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:06:02 +0200, Sebastian Mendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 > > Guilherme Blanco schrieb: > >> Have you ever asked yourselves... why? why PHP5's adoption is so bad? > > it was badly advertised! Can't argue with that. :) > > most people don't even know how much faster

[PHP-DEV] Mid-term Update for Cycle Collector (Google Summer of Code Project)

2007-07-11 Thread David Wang
Hello, everyone. My name is David Wang and I am one of the students participating in Google Summer of Code this year. As you may remember, my project is to implement a garbage collector for circular references in PHP. As the midterm for Summer of Code is coming up, my mentor, Derick Rethans, thoug

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Jeff Griffiths
chris# wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:30:26 -0500, Larry Garfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... The claim that is still repeated that one "has to" rewrite everything to be OO in order to port to PHP 5 is, quite simply, FUD. True. But then again, what's the point of using 5 if you're not incl

Re: [PHP-DEV] DateTime and setlocale()

2007-07-11 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Brian Moon wrote: > I was just wondering if it was intentional to ignore setlocale() in the new > DateTime object and its friends? That is a real let down if it was > intentional. Maybe its just a future feature? It's intentional for PHP 5.2, not for PHP 6.0. More will come

[PHP-DEV] DateTime and setlocale()

2007-07-11 Thread Brian Moon
I was just wondering if it was intentional to ignore setlocale() in the new DateTime object and its friends? That is a real let down if it was intentional. Maybe its just a future feature? -- Brian Moon Senior Developer -- http://dealnews.com/ It's good to be chea

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Sebastian Mendel
Stut schrieb: > Sebastian Mendel wrote: >> Guilherme Blanco schrieb: >>> Have you ever asked yourselves... why? why PHP5's adoption is so bad? >> >> it was badly advertised! >> >> most people don't even know how much faster it is! > > Is it really faster? From what I've read over the past few year

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > On 11.07.2007, at 14:06, Sebastian Mendel wrote: > > > Guilherme Blanco schrieb: > > > > > Have you ever asked yourselves... why? why PHP5's adoption is so > > > bad? > > > > it was badly advertised! > > > > most people don't even know how much

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
On 11.07.2007, at 15:11, David Coallier wrote: On 7/11/07, Lukas Kahwe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11.07.2007, at 14:06, Sebastian Mendel wrote: > +1 > > Guilherme Blanco schrieb: > >> Have you ever asked yourselves... why? why PHP5's adoption is so bad? > > it was badly advertise

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread David Coallier
On 7/11/07, Lukas Kahwe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11.07.2007, at 14:06, Sebastian Mendel wrote: > +1 > > Guilherme Blanco schrieb: > >> Have you ever asked yourselves... why? why PHP5's adoption is so bad? > > it was badly advertised! > > most people don't even know how much faster it

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
On 11.07.2007, at 14:06, Sebastian Mendel wrote: +1 Guilherme Blanco schrieb: Have you ever asked yourselves... why? why PHP5's adoption is so bad? it was badly advertised! most people don't even know how much faster it is! to say nothing about of all the new features not known by most

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Stut
Sebastian Mendel wrote: Guilherme Blanco schrieb: Have you ever asked yourselves... why? why PHP5's adoption is so bad? it was badly advertised! most people don't even know how much faster it is! Is it really faster? From what I've read over the past few years the general opinion is that i

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Sebastian Mendel
+1 Guilherme Blanco schrieb: > Have you ever asked yourselves... why? why PHP5's adoption is so bad? it was badly advertised! most people don't even know how much faster it is! to say nothing about of all the new features not known by most developers! (of course - most people here now them) la

Re: [PHP-DEV] Always enable mail() function

2007-07-11 Thread Jani Taskinen
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 11:36 +0200, Johannes Schlüter wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 10:00 +0300, Jani Taskinen wrote: > > Just commit the patch. I'll remove the configure stuff for you. :) > > Well, I kept the configure stuff to set the default value of the ini > setting when sendmail is

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Tomas Kuliavas
>> > I think the sooner the better as it's valuable information for the dev >> > team. >> > It'd probably be a good idea to have a Wiki where we can document >> issues >> > that/common use-cases which are encountered. >> > Maybe we should have a Wiki on one of the php.net servers for such >> > purp

Re: [PHP-DEV] Always enable mail() function

2007-07-11 Thread Johannes Schlüter
Hi, On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 10:00 +0300, Jani Taskinen wrote: > Just commit the patch. I'll remove the configure stuff for you. :) Well, I kept the configure stuff to set the default value of the ini setting when sendmail is found. johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Jani Taskinen
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 10:24 +0200, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > this and IIRC the only opposition has always been Rasmus that insists > that things like this should be in CVS (yes I know we have a todo > file in CVS). But it seems to me like most internals developers have > showed their prefere

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread chris#
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:20:44 -0400, Evert | Rooftop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Larry Garfield wrote: >> >> Top 10 by what metric? If I had to guess based on market share, I'd say >> (unordered): >> >> Drupal >> Squirrelmail >> WordPress >> phpMyAdmin >> MediaWiki >> Joomla >> PHPBB >> > > Th

RE: [PHP-DEV] Suggestion for fixing Bug #40928

2007-07-11 Thread Tzachi Tager
The reason I'm doing this is because it seems that Windows parser looks for an odd number of '"' before the escaping, otherwise the escaping character is included in the outcome, for example: string(25) "md "test ^& echo ^%foo^%"" ==> will output a directory called "test ^& echo ^%foo^%" Whil

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Marco
Almost, I want to change the 2nd paragraph to: Hereby the PHP development team announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-b

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Jani Taskinen
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 10:21 +0200, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > we tried to get most of the top php OSS projects into the primary > testers group: > http://oss.backendmedia.com/PhP4yz > http://oss.backendmedia.com/PhP5yz > http://oss.backendmedia.com/PhP6yz Emphasis on word "tried" ? :D Is there s

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
On 11.07.2007, at 00:02, Andi Gutmans wrote: I think the sooner the better as it's valuable information for the dev team. It'd probably be a good idea to have a Wiki where we can document issues that/common use-cases which are encountered. Maybe we should have a Wiki on one of the php.net se

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
On 11.07.2007, at 07:15, Larry Garfield wrote: On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Evert | Rooftop wrote: Andi Gutmans wrote: I think the sooner the better as it's valuable information for the dev team. It'd probably be a good idea to have a Wiki where we can document issues that/common use-cases w

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Pierre wrote: > On 7/10/07, Derick Rethans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Pierre wrote: > > > > > On 7/9/07, Derick Rethans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'd suggest something close to what Ras

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?

2007-07-11 Thread Richard Quadling
On 11/07/07, Evert | Rooftop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Larry Garfield wrote: > > Top 10 by what metric? If I had to guess based on market share, I'd say > (unordered): > > Drupal > Squirrelmail > WordPress > phpMyAdmin > MediaWiki > Joomla > PHPBB > That will keep me busy =) Evert Would it

Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?

2007-07-11 Thread Pierre
On 7/10/07, Derick Rethans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Pierre wrote: > On 7/9/07, Derick Rethans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > > > > I'd suggest something close to what Rasmus suggested: > > > a) We make a clear statement on PHP.net

Re: [PHP-DEV] Always enable mail() function

2007-07-11 Thread Antony Dovgal
No objections from me. On 11.07.2007 01:25, Johannes Schlüter wrote: Hi, recently I had the problem that we disable the mail() function if configure can't find the sendmail binary. Is there any real reason for this? I can image a few situations where the binary is in a non-standard location or

Re: [PHP-DEV] Always enable mail() function

2007-07-11 Thread Jani Taskinen
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 00:08 +0200, Johannes Schlüter wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 00:49 +0300, Jani Taskinen wrote: > > So what happens when sendmail really does not exist? > > The same as if you configure sendmail_path wrong or move you binary to a > host where it is missing: mail() returns fal