Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > > On 22.11.2008, at 14:52, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > >> Work is still going on to finalize the namespace changes. I am not >> sure when this will be done, I am sort of hoping Monday. Then we can >> freeze Tuesday and release on Thursday if all goes well. > > > The good news, namespace changes are now finished ahead of alpha3. > Documentation is also going to be available soon. > > Now for the bad, I have continued the trend of being too optimistic for > the alpha3 release date, which is now set for Tuesday December 2nd. > Freeze is therefore on the 28th, packaging will happen sometime on > December 1st, allowing a period for important last minute fixes as well > as build related work. > > Until then please all make sure that you get whatever you can ready. > Since we hope this will be our last alpha, it also means that this > release will also mark the end for feature additions in self contained > parts of the code. That being said I already know of a few items that I > know will not make it into alpha3 that we might see before beta1. If you > are unsure if your stuff is in this mental list, please let me or > Johannes know just to make sure. > > But if you have not gotten in contact with one of the RM's about your > stuff yet, then its unlikely that we will consider it after beta1. Not > because we are mean or because we do not realize that many of you only > have your spare time to work on stuff, just because we really really > have to get 5.3 out the door some day and guess what .. it looks like we > will not even have a beta out this year! So think about it .. at least 2 > beta's, 2-4 RC's and yeah .. it even looks optimistic to go stable in Q1 > 2009. Again this is open source, so the only people we do not have to > release on a specific date, I just feel bad for all the work people have > put into code months ago that is not getting released for so long. > > Anyways, a few items from the top of my head that I know people were > talking about: > - rounding patch > - stream's issues that Greg found and Arnaud recently commented on as > well as other streams issues > - openssl patches > - gd work > - mysqlnd async stuff ready? > - interbase ready on windows? > > Independent of that I need someone to handle the move of ext/mhash to PECL. >
Why not just delete the extension? There isn't anything valuable in there as it just wraps around hash now, it is literally an empty module and a configure script. Scott -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
