[PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6.1RC1 is ready for testing

2014-09-12 Thread Julien Pauli
Hi! Our RC1 of PHP 5.6.1 was just released today. You can fetch it from http://downloads.php.net/jpauli/ The Windows binaries are available at http://windows.php.net/qa/ This release contains a number of bugfixes. For the list of bugfixes that you can target in your testing, please refer to t

Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove alternative PHP tags

2014-09-12 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
> > > I think Andrea raises a valid point about BC. I agree that those old tags > should go, but I'd suggest we target that removal for PHP 7 and just add a > deprecated flag on 5.x. > nobody suggested removing them in 5.x, and while I agree that adding a deprecated notice before the removal woul

Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove alternative PHP tags

2014-09-12 Thread Rowan Collins
Michael Kliewe wrote (on 12/09/2014): If you check Github you will see round about 10.000 code results, but most of them are tests (.phpt), example files, duplicate results, and maybe <100 projects that really use them, and I would guess >90% of these projects are rarely used and very old. http

[PHP-DEV] Re: pack() and unpack() 64 bit format codes

2014-09-12 Thread Leigh
On Sep 9, 2014 7:36 PM, "Leigh" wrote: > > Hi Internals, > > I would like to propose giving pack() and unpack() 64 bit format > codes, mimicking the current behaviour of 32 bit format codes. > > Pack and unpack are obviously functions inspired by Perl, which has > the 64 bit format codes 'q' and '

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: pack() and unpack() 64 bit format codes

2014-09-12 Thread Pierre Joye
On Sep 12, 2014 2:10 PM, "Leigh" wrote: > > On Sep 9, 2014 7:36 PM, "Leigh" wrote: > > > > Hi Internals, > > > > I would like to propose giving pack() and unpack() 64 bit format > > codes, mimicking the current behaviour of 32 bit format codes. > > > > Pack and unpack are obviously functions insp

Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove alternative PHP tags

2014-09-12 Thread Nikita Popov
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:32 AM, Andrea Faulds wrote: > I initially thought that I’m not really against removing them really, but > I think we should have a script to convert them first. Because someone, > somewhere, is gonna need it. > I have added a small script for porting prehistoric tags, s

Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove alternative PHP tags

2014-09-12 Thread Andrea Faulds
On 12 Sep 2014, at 19:08, Nikita Popov wrote: > I have added a small script for porting prehistoric tags, see > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_alternative_php_tags#porting_tool That’s great! To clarify: This only works on 5.x where asp_tags is available, yes? > I am amenable to adding the a

[PHP-DEV] [RFC] 64 bit format codes for pack() and unpack()

2014-09-12 Thread Leigh
Hi list, I would like to propose the addition of format codes for pack() and unpack() to work with 64 bit integers. Pierre suggested I create an RFC for this. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pack_unpack_64bit_formats The RFC proposes both perl-compatible, and perl-incompatible codes, however I think t