On 9/16/05, Andi Gutmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jani, > > I don't really see how PHP 6 can support a build > without ICU. With the whole core using the ICU > library it's almost like not supporting libC. If > you find a way I'd be happy to hear about it and > discuss but I think it's not realistic. > > Regarding spring cleaning, I suggest to relax a > bit. I don't think it should be done before PHP 6 > (nor did others including Rasmus suggest that),
I think it was ironic, but why do we not do that now in HEAD? > and I am still trying to work through that list > and trying to understand where it makes > sense/doesn't make sense to break things. I The Rasmus list has been wastly approved. I fail to see why we should not apply some request of this list. > do think we have to be careful about some of that > stuff, and as PHP 6 won't be released next month, > and most of those "spring cleaning" patches are > trivial, I don't see a reason to hurry up and not > give some more time. The past prooved to me that delaying changes is not a good idea. Changes _never_ come. > Nothing is gained by doing > it today, and I'm sure Andrei would be happy to > get help from the dev guys on migrating functions > to Unicode which is a lot more work and on the critical path to PHP 6. Having a code base cleaned could help to convert to migrate ;) --Pierre -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
