On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 05:08:33PM GMT, Lukas Kahwe Smith [...@pooteeweet.org] said the following: > Wow, you sure do assume a lot of things about PHP and its development > community. I have never seen your name on this list before and (now I > am assuming) do not know the state of development of PHP6 (as in that > its more or less on halt until someone gets things going again).
I've never seen your name before, but I've been using PHP for a while. In other words, there are lots of people involved and affected by this, far more than any of you seem to realize as indicated by your comments. > Maybe try to substantiate that argument with a google code search or > something. Personally I have seen quite the opposite, then again I > have been actively encouraging people to use preg since about 5 or > more years now. Been using PHP since 1997 (version 2). Been a sysadmin at 3 places that all have some PHP use, have been a paid developer on a major PHP based project that I didn't even write, but contained over 130,000 lines of PHP code. Written by someone with more experience than me. I've looked at and even modified PHP code for countless open source projects. I've read books and lots of documentation on PHP. Of all that, I have seen very little use of the preg functions. Some people use it sure, but it is by no means the standard. And obviously from what other people are doing, I'm not alone. Its you guys that are in the minority here. > Well the whole internet hasnt setup a donation box to pay for > developers to work on stuff like this full time. Heh, Its not the job of the internet to take donations, that's the job of the people running the PHP project, but I don't see any mention of donate on the PHP website. It always seemed from the outside like Zend somewhat supported the project. -- Mark S. Krenz IT Director Suso Technology Services, Inc. http://suso.org/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
