Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-22 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 08:44 +0100, Martin Keckeis wrote: I think there may come many critics maybe, but why not move those things also to github? It's used by many people. it works, it's easy! It is easily two steps back. Yay! (Tags are funny but don't help with categorization of bugs on

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-22 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Martin Keckeis martin.kecke...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/2/21 Johannes Schlüter johan...@schlueters.de On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 19:13 +0100, Pascal Chevrel wrote: I am specifically thinking of Bugzilla which is already used by many open source projects. It

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-22 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Johannes Schlüter johan...@schlueters.dewrote: On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 08:44 +0100, Martin Keckeis wrote: I think there may come many critics maybe, but why not move those things also to github? It's used by many people. it works, it's easy! It is easily

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Eloy Bote Falcon
2013/2/20 Derick Rethans der...@php.net: Looks like it is time to forward this email from 2006 again: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:57:32 +0200 From: Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com To: internals@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Eloy Bote Falcon eloyb...@gmail.com wrote: Agree. There are only a few core devs working daily in the PHP internals. I would say please give the Language (and devs) a rest motion, because there are a lot of bugs and work to be done but I'm afraid that is

RE: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Zeev Suraski
- From: Lars Strojny [mailto:l...@strojny.net] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 1:15 AM To: Derick Rethans; PHP Developers Mailing List Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd) As a general reply: I'd like to disagree, and here is why. Yes, we should not let half baked

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Zeev, On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: What you're bringing up is not at all about adapting. Adapting is something we do at the extensions, frameworks and tools levels. I'm happy to say PHP's ecosystem here is very healthy, in my opinion. Yes, most of

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Lester Caine
Zeev Suraski wrote: There used to be a language that was the Queen of the Web. It was full of clever syntax. It prided itself on having a variety of expressive ways of doing the same thing. You're on the mailing list of the language that dethroned it. And the majority of END USERS are more

RE: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Zeev Suraski
[mailto:pierre@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 12:09 PM To: Zeev Suraski Cc: Lars Strojny; Derick Rethans; PHP Developers Mailing List Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd) hi Zeev, On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: What

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Terry Ellison
Here is a counterpoint to that expressed by Lars. Many if not most shared hosting providers don't offer PHP 5.4 yet. Ditto many enterprises have yet to adopt it. The main reason? I think its that old Backwards Compatibility issue that has been discussed heavily on this DL. When major

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Nikita Popov
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Derick Rethans der...@php.net wrote: Once you're done thinking, decide for yourself. Does it make sense to be discussing new language level features every other week? Or should we, perhaps, invest more in other fronts, which would be beneficial for a far

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Pierre Joye
Zeev, On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: Pierre, People who think differently from you are not necessarily blind of stubborn. I honestly think that those comments were completely out of line in several different ways. It is not my opinion but a simple fact.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Lester Caine
Pierre Joye wrote: Regarding 'voting with feet', it's an idiom, look it up. I know, still do not think it fits as comment either here. I read this as simply People are not leaving PHP in droves simply because it does not have xxx - actually the opposite, but that growth in use is not into

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Florin Razvan Patan
Hello, This might sound as a rant but I assure you it's not. It's just how I see the things from my perspective and that of my colleagues/employer. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: What you're bringing up is not at all about adapting. Adapting is something

RE: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Zeev Suraski
People who think differently from you are not necessarily blind of stubborn. I honestly think that those comments were completely out of line in several different ways. It is not my opinion but a simple fact. That comment would have been funny if it wasn't sad. I'll leave it at that.

RE: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Zeev Suraski
-Original Message- From: Florin Razvan Patan [mailto:florinpa...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 3:15 PM To: Zeev Suraski Cc: Lars Strojny; Derick Rethans; PHP Developers Mailing List Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd) On Thu, Feb 21, 2013

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: That's not adaptation in my book. That's addition. It's not the technology landscape that changed that now you need annotations; It's that some people consider this feature cool and useful, and want to import it into

RE: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Zeev Suraski
-Original Message- From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:08 PM To: Zeev Suraski Cc: Florin Razvan Patan; Lars Strojny; Derick Rethans; PHP Developers Mailing List Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd) hi

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Michael Shadle
On Feb 21, 2013, at 1:56 AM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: There used to be a language that was the Queen of the Web. It was full of clever syntax. It prided itself on having a variety of expressive ways of doing the same thing. You're on the mailing list of the language that

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
In the slice of the community where I spend most of my time, medium-to-large companies using PHP with their own custom code on hundreds to thousands or even 10's of thousands of servers, neither annotations nor getter/setter are anywhere on their wishlist radar. What they most desire is

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Arvids Godjuks
Hello, didn't read the whole thread, just a few messages at the start. But because I'm replying to the starting message, it's not relevant :) In principle, as a user-land developer, I agree with the motion. It's too much fancy new shiny stuff lately and no actual improvement on the old stuff that

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Marco Pivetta
On 21 February 2013 16:30, Rasmus Lerdorf ras...@lerdorf.com wrote: In the slice of the community where I spend most of my time No hard feelings, but it would be awesome if that part of the community (the one that basically avoids social coding as far as I can see, not to be taken as a sin,

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 16:54 +0100, Marco Pivetta wrote: No hard feelings, but it would be awesome if that part of the community (the one that basically avoids social coding as far as I can see, not to be taken as a sin, but still meh) didn't just try to hold back PHP because of business

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Marco Pivetta
On 21 February 2013 17:04, Johannes Schlüter johan...@schlueters.de wrote: The quoted business decision was We want something stable and fast, an emphasis of fixing bugs over adding new ones. This sounds sane to me. johannes Doesn't exclude new features then: so what is this all about?

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Levi Morrison
Personally I would love to see more RFCs focusing on performance and less on syntax changes. Some recent tests I performed indicate that JavaScript and Dart are both significantly faster than PHP when working with just arrays and numbers. If anyone is interested I can provide the test code for

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Florin Razvan Patan
Hello, On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf ras...@lerdorf.com wrote: In the slice of the community where I spend most of my time, medium-to-large companies using PHP with their own custom code on hundreds to thousands or even 10's of thousands of servers, neither annotations nor

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Alexey Zakhlestin
On 21.02.2013, at 20:08, Levi Morrison morrison.l...@gmail.com wrote: Personally I would love to see more RFCs focusing on performance and less on syntax changes. Some recent tests I performed indicate that JavaScript and Dart are both significantly faster than PHP when working with just

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread David Soria Parra
On 2013-02-21, Rasmus Lerdorf ras...@lerdorf.com wrote: Personally I would love to see more RFCs focusing on performance and less on syntax changes. Of course, a syntax change RFC, and even the initial (often shaky) implementation of a syntax-related change is much much easier to whip up than

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
replying inline I think it would be helpful to have something like a roadmap with various features and changes both in regards to language and features as well as performance. We have discussed before and the problem is the nature of the project: it is an open source project where the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Pascal Chevrel
Le 21/02/2013 18:56, Ferenc Kovacs a écrit : it is, and it is a chicken and egg problem: even though that the usual my C-fu is weak argument doesn't apply there, we still lack contributors, and the archaic nature of the current codebase doesn't really helps bringing in new people. even if a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Michael Shadle
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Pascal Chevrel pascal.chev...@free.fr wrote: I am specifically thinking of Bugzilla which is already used by many open source projects. It has a lot more features than your current bug tracking system, it scales for large projects and it has a few Mozilla

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 19:13 +0100, Pascal Chevrel wrote: I am specifically thinking of Bugzilla which is already used by many open source projects. It has a lot more features than your current bug tracking system, it scales for large projects and it has a few Mozilla employees working

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Lester Caine
Arvids Godjuks wrote: In principle, as a user-land developer, I agree with the motion. It's too much fancy new shiny stuff lately and no actual improvement on the old stuff that really needs fixing or updating/rewriting (PDO anyone? Years behind every db driver extension there is in PHP, and as

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 17:06 +0100, Marco Pivetta wrote: On 21 February 2013 17:04, Johannes Schlüter johan...@schlueters.de wrote: The quoted business decision was We want something stable and fast, an emphasis of fixing bugs over adding new ones. This sounds sane to me. Doesn't exclude

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On 02/21/2013 01:04 PM, Johannes Schlüter wrote: On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 17:06 +0100, Marco Pivetta wrote: On 21 February 2013 17:04, Johannes Schlüter johan...@schlueters.de wrote: The quoted business decision was We want something stable and fast, an emphasis of fixing bugs over adding new

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Crypto Compress
Hello List, how about sort of Tick-Tock development model? Tick = optimize/bugfix Tock = shiny new features e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Tick-Tock cryptocompress -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! F.e., how long have we been battled for annotations? With all respects, it is about being blind and stubborn to say that PHP should not have annotations. But due to some I'm happy with what we have It is about being blind and stubborn to hold opinion different than yours. And *this* not

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-21 Thread Martin Keckeis
2013/2/21 Johannes Schlüter johan...@schlueters.de On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 19:13 +0100, Pascal Chevrel wrote: I am specifically thinking of Bugzilla which is already used by many open source projects. It has a lot more features than your current bug tracking system, it scales for large

[PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-20 Thread Derick Rethans
Looks like it is time to forward this email from 2006 again: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:57:32 +0200 From: Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com To: internals@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion I'd like to raise a motion to 'Give the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-20 Thread Pierre Joye
I would also say it us time for us to get back in sync with the communities needs. I am not talking about the last days RFCs but in general. On Feb 20, 2013 7:19 PM, Derick Rethans der...@php.net wrote: Looks like it is time to forward this email from 2006 again: -- Forwarded message

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-20 Thread Lars Strojny
As a general reply: I’d like to disagree, and here is why. Yes, we should not let half baked features in but we need to add more and more features, also syntax wise. For three reasons: - Parity/expectations/me too: so you can do that in PHP as well - Expressiveness: allow better ways to

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-20 Thread Levi Morrison
- 5.3: goto. A good thing we can do it. I'm not sure for what exactly but I am sure there is somebody out there :) An associate of mine used it in his HTTP message parser. He's sure glad it's there :) -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2013-02-20 Thread Ryan McCue
Levi Morrison wrote: - 5.3: goto. A good thing we can do it. I'm not sure for what exactly but I am sure there is somebody out there :) An associate of mine used it in his HTTP message parser. He's sure glad it's there :) Conversely, I have two HTTP message parsers that I maintain, and

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-29 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Le 16/06/2011 08:10, Stas Malyshev a écrit : Hi! what I did every single time. Among all my bug reports I had one answer from decoder-...@own-hero.net (thanks to him) who reduced the test case for a memory leak (bug 54460). I'm not talking about bugs in modules but bugs in *core* which can

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-29 Thread Paul Dragoonis
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Pascal COURTOIS pascal.court...@nouvo.com wrote: Le 16/06/2011 08:10, Stas Malyshev a écrit : Hi! what I did every single time. Among all my bug reports I had one answer from decoder-...@own-hero.net (thanks to him) who reduced the test case for a memory leak

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-29 Thread Hannes Magnusson
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 16:43, Paul Dragoonis dragoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Pascal COURTOIS pascal.court...@nouvo.com wrote: Le 16/06/2011 08:10, Stas Malyshev a écrit : Hi! what I did every single time. Among all my bug reports I had one answer from

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-29 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Le 29/06/2011 16:57, Hannes Magnusson a écrit : We have the data now and work is now ongoing migrating the two now. museum is also up, and snaps will probably be running before the weekend. great, thanks :-) -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-29 Thread Philip Olson
On Jun 29, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Paul Dragoonis wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Pascal COURTOIS pascal.court...@nouvo.com wrote: Le 16/06/2011 08:10, Stas Malyshev a écrit : Hi! what I did every single time. Among all my bug reports I had one answer from decoder-...@own-hero.net

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-29 Thread Pierre Joye
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Pascal COURTOIS pascal.court...@nouvo.com wrote:  bug 54460 has disapeared from bugs.php.net . Is due to the crash ? Yes, the data was not available by the time we release PHP 5.4.0-alpha1. So we went with an alternative and temporary solution, see

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-29 Thread Pierre Joye
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Hannes Magnusson hannes.magnus...@gmail.com wrote: No. Some people just wanted some bugsweb so an old database was restored rather then waiting few hours for the actual data export. The some people actually make it so that bugs.php.net was available by the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread dukeofgaming
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Pascal COURTOIS pascal.court...@nouvo.com wrote: Le 16/06/2011 04:36, dukeofgaming a écrit : Hi, I think that —in any context— the if it aint broke don't fix it is a very depressing attitude to have, and a very wrong one in any open source community.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! what I did every single time. Among all my bug reports I had one answer from decoder-...@own-hero.net (thanks to him) who reduced the test case for a memory leak (bug 54460). I'm not talking about bugs in modules but bugs in *core* which can be reproduced with few lines of *core* PHP.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Le 16/06/2011 08:01, dukeofgaming a écrit : Sorry if the question is dumb, but, how many core developers does PHP have?, how many in total (including non-core contributors)?. That's not the point. Whatever the project is, every developer should fix existing bugs before even thinking about

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Michael Wallner
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:10:24 -0700, Stas Malyshev wrote: Hi! what I did every single time. Among all my bug reports I had one answer Stas, how I can i finally persuade you to quote the name of the people you're replying to? :) I find it very hard to follow any discussion you're

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread dukeofgaming
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Pascal COURTOIS pascal.court...@nouvo.comwrote: Le 16/06/2011 08:01, dukeofgaming a écrit : Sorry if the question is dumb, but, how many core developers does PHP have?, how many in total (including non-core contributors)?. That's not the point. Whatever

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Le 16/06/2011 08:10, Stas Malyshev a écrit : Hi! what I did every single time. Among all my bug reports I had one answer from decoder-...@own-hero.net (thanks to him) who reduced the test case for a memory leak (bug 54460). I'm not talking about bugs in modules but bugs in *core* which can

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Lester Caine
Pascal COURTOIS wrote: What I need is a very stable language on which I can rely and I'm very sad to to say PHP is getting worse and worse on that point of view versions after versions. I can not contradict your experience, it is what it is, but my experience for years working with PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Le 16/06/2011 08:52, Lester Caine a écrit : Pascal I am sure that many people here would be more than happy to hear about particular problems you are hitting. Ok, then why when I signal a bug noone cares ? Like Stas I have never had problems with the stability of PHP5 in 10 years of

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Lester Caine
Pascal COURTOIS wrote: Like Stas I have never had problems with the stability of PHP5 in 10 years of running it. PHP5 did not exist 10 years ago ;-) OK coming on 8 years ... seems longer :) I looked at PHP4, but PHP5 was at release candidate stage so I decided that I'd skip straight to

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Philip Olson
On Jun 15, 2011, at 11:34 PM, dukeofgaming wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Pascal COURTOIS pascal.court...@nouvo.comwrote: Le 16/06/2011 08:01, dukeofgaming a écrit : Sorry if the question is dumb, but, how many core developers does PHP have?, how many in total (including

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Le 16/06/2011 09:19, Lester Caine a écrit : when you have a bug in PHP it should not ever ever crash PHP and unfortunately I encountered that case dozens of times. At least on Linux is just recovers and carries on If PHP crashes, yes, it recovers but it's VERY resource and time

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Stas Malyshev
On 6/15/11 11:38 PM, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: In bug 614904 I submitted a TWO lines program which crashed PHP on a absolutely standard i386 debian install. I got no answer. Of course the bug disapeared in following versions of PHP but what is fixed ? Not as far as I know. 614904 doesn't look

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Le 16/06/2011 09:29, Stas Malyshev a écrit : On 6/15/11 11:38 PM, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: In bug 614904 I submitted a TWO lines program which crashed PHP on a absolutely standard i386 debian install. I got no answer. Of course the bug disapeared in following versions of PHP but what is fixed

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Stas Malyshev
On 6/15/11 11:38 PM, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: as I said earlier, test case was reduced to: The leaks you'll be seeing in this code is probably caused by the fact that main function (i.e. global context) is not destroyed when exit() is called, since . It can be argued as a bug, but very

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Le 16/06/2011 09:56, Stas Malyshev a écrit : On 6/15/11 11:38 PM, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: as I said earlier, test case was reduced to: The leaks you'll be seeing in this code is probably caused by the fact that main function (i.e. global context) is not destroyed when exit() is called, since

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! On 6/16/11 1:05 AM, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: If you call minuscule a leak that requires more than 128Mb as it normally requires about 4Mb, then it's minuscule but whatever you name it it just does not run. Sorry, if your example generates memory footprint of 128Mb, something is

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Le 16/06/2011 10:12, Stas Malyshev a écrit : Hi! On 6/16/11 1:05 AM, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: If you call minuscule a leak that requires more than 128Mb as it normally requires about 4Mb, then it's minuscule but whatever you name it it just does not run. Sorry, if your example generates

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Pierre Joye
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Andi Gutmans a...@zend.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 2:33 AM To: Andi Gutmans Cc: Derick Rethans; PHP Developers Mailing List Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 08:12 +0200, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: Le 16/06/2011 08:01, dukeofgaming a écrit : Sorry if the question is dumb, but, how many core developers does PHP have?, how many in total (including non-core contributors)?. That's not the point. Whatever the project is, every

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Le 16/06/2011 11:36, Johannes Schlüter a écrit : On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 08:12 +0200, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: Le 16/06/2011 08:01, dukeofgaming a écrit : Sorry if the question is dumb, but, how many core developers does PHP have?, how many in total (including non-core contributors)?. That's

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Pierre Joye
2011/6/16 Pascal COURTOIS pascal.court...@nouvo.com:  I know. I also have a GPL project. Nonetheless some societies use it, and some people rely on it to get paid. I have absolutely no legal contract with anyone but I have a moral contract and when I'm signaled a bug, it is mostly fixed

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Le 16/06/2011 12:12, Pierre Joye a écrit : It is not what Johannes said and we do fix bugs every single day. What Johannes said is that we can't force a volunteer to do something specific instead of what he wants to do. It is also totally off topic btw. It is really on topic since

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Rasmus
On 06/16/2011 11:03 AM, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: If you followed the thread you have seen the reduced test case is VERY short and the ONLY constructions involved are user functions and exceptions. FULL STOP. Not even a single addition nor a loop nor nothing. I can't imagine nobody uses user

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Le 16/06/2011 12:31, Rasmus a écrit : On 06/16/2011 11:03 AM, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: If you followed the thread you have seen the reduced test case is VERY short and the ONLY constructions involved are user functions and exceptions. FULL STOP. Not even a single addition nor a loop nor

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Johannes Schlüter
On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 12:26 +0200, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: Le 16/06/2011 12:12, Pierre Joye a écrit : It is not what Johannes said and we do fix bugs every single day. What Johannes said is that we can't force a volunteer to do something specific instead of what he wants to do. It is

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Rasmus
On 06/16/2011 11:40 AM, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: Le 16/06/2011 12:31, Rasmus a écrit : On 06/16/2011 11:03 AM, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: If you followed the thread you have seen the reduced test case is VERY short and the ONLY constructions involved are user functions and exceptions. FULL STOP.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Rasmus
On 06/16/2011 12:42 PM, Rasmus wrote: On 06/16/2011 11:40 AM, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: Le 16/06/2011 12:31, Rasmus a écrit : On 06/16/2011 11:03 AM, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: If you followed the thread you have seen the reduced test case is VERY short and the ONLY constructions involved are user

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Le 16/06/2011 13:42, Rasmus a écrit : On 06/16/2011 11:40 AM, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: Le 16/06/2011 12:31, Rasmus a écrit : On 06/16/2011 11:03 AM, Pascal COURTOIS wrote: If you followed the thread you have seen the reduced test case is VERY short and the ONLY constructions involved are user

RE: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Andi Gutmans
-Original Message- From: Pascal COURTOIS [mailto:pascal.court...@nouvo.com] Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:28 AM To: Lester Caine Cc: PHP internals Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd) Le 16/06/2011 09:19, Lester Caine a écrit : when you have a bug in PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! I'm not saying there aren't any. There are known leaks in compile_file() when you throw an exception like that, so if you call a huge amount of these within a single request, you are going to have problems. But that You actually can't call huge amount of these in one request, as this

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Le 16/06/2011 18:11, Andi Gutmans a écrit : I have some news for you. Ruby has crashes, Python has crashes, Probably. any references about that ? even Java has security issues and crashes (check out the Java bug database. It's bigger than ours). IMHO java is a big s**t but that's

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-16 Thread Rasmus
On 06/16/2011 05:32 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: Hi! I'm not saying there aren't any. There are known leaks in compile_file() when you throw an exception like that, so if you call a huge amount of these within a single request, you are going to have problems. But that You actually can't call

[PHP-DEV] Re: 5.4 alpha, was: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-15 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! Stas, on a different note, weren't we going to roll a 5.4 alpha? I was going to write about it soon, but since you asked: I was waiting for RFC/voting discussion and vote in hope that we could get it all ready before the alpha, but it looks like it is taking longer than expected. So I

答复: [PHP-DEV] Re: 5.4 alpha, was: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-15 Thread 高春辉
+1, for Thursday :-) -邮件原件- 发件人: Stas Malyshev [mailto:smalys...@sugarcrm.com] 发送时间: 2011年6月15日 15:24 收件人: Andi Gutmans 抄送: PHP Developers Mailing List 主题: [PHP-DEV] Re: 5.4 alpha, was: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd) Hi! Stas, on a different note, weren't we going

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-15 Thread Pierre Joye
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Andi Gutmans a...@zend.com wrote: Hence my suggestion to bundle MongoDB extension and possibly work on additional extensions. Some of my suggestions probably rightfully didn't get much interest such as Thrift. See my comment in your other thread and below.

[PHP-DEV] Re: 5.4 alpha, was: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-15 Thread David Soria Parra
On 2011-06-15, Stas Malyshev smalys...@sugarcrm.com wrote: Hi! Stas, on a different note, weren't we going to roll a 5.4 alpha? I was going to write about it soon, but since you asked: I was waiting for RFC/voting discussion and vote in hope that we could get it all ready before the

RE: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-15 Thread Andi Gutmans
-Original Message- From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 2:33 AM To: Andi Gutmans Cc: Derick Rethans; PHP Developers Mailing List Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd) On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Andi Gutmans

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-15 Thread dukeofgaming
- From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 2:33 AM To: Andi Gutmans Cc: Derick Rethans; PHP Developers Mailing List Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd) On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Andi Gutmans a...@zend.com wrote: Hence

RE: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-15 Thread Andi Gutmans
...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 7:36 PM To: Andi Gutmans Cc: Pierre Joye; Derick Rethans; PHP Developers Mailing List Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd) Hi, I think that -in any context- the if it aint broke don't fix it is a very depressing attitude to have

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-15 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Le 16/06/2011 04:36, dukeofgaming a écrit : Hi, I think that —in any context— the if it aint broke don't fix it is a very depressing attitude to have, and a very wrong one in any open source community. What I feel depressing is the urge of the PHP core team to fix working features

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-15 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! On every PHP project I work on I had to find workarounds because PHP crashes. Behaviour bugs (feature not working as intended) are annoying but memory leaks and memory corruptions are just a no no no in production environment. The only way A key to fixing memory corruption is

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-15 Thread Pascal COURTOIS
Le 16/06/2011 07:23, Stas Malyshev a écrit : Hi! On every PHP project I work on I had to find workarounds because PHP crashes. Behaviour bugs (feature not working as intended) are annoying but memory leaks and memory corruptions are just a no no no in production environment. The only way

RE: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-14 Thread Andi Gutmans
Subject: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd) Hi, Short-array syntax, Native JSON, Currying. I can almost only say one thing: WHY?! And because of that, I'd like to forward a mail by Zeev from a few years ago. I think it applies now even more than then: -- Forwarded message

[PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-07 Thread Derick Rethans
Hi, Short-array syntax, Native JSON, Currying. I can almost only say one thing: WHY?! And because of that, I'd like to forward a mail by Zeev from a few years ago. I think it applies now even more than then: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:57:32 +0200 From:

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-07 Thread Pierre Joye
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Derick Rethans der...@php.net wrote: Hi, Short-array syntax, Native JSON, Currying. I can almost only say one thing: WHY?! And because of that, I'd like to forward a mail by Zeev from a few years ago. I think it applies now even more than then: I'd to

Re: [PHP-DEV] Give the Language a Rest motion (fwd)

2011-06-07 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Derick Rethans der...@php.net wrote: Hi, Short-array syntax, Native JSON, Currying. I can almost only say one thing: WHY?! And because of that, I'd like to forward a mail by Zeev from a few years ago. I think it applies now even more than then: snip I