Hello Stas, On 3 August 2011 02:39, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote:> > I notice some tone of hostility here.
I'm not hostile. Perhaps a bit disappointed that the PECL objection wasn't brought up earlier in the discussion period so It could have been toughly discussed. > /* snip */ > This is why we tend to recommend to try the code outside the core if > possible before taking it in. Yes, this is self evident. > You seem to regard PECL as some kind of place where code goes to die. This > is not so. Of course, some PECL extensions do wither and die of neglect, but > others work just fine and have large user base - such as memcache support, > apc, etc. Recommendation of PECL is not a punishment or disregard for your > ideas or code - it is a recognition of the fact that not every new idea > should immediately be implemented in the core. See the first paragraph in my previous post. > If you think all proposals are more complex than this, you are obviously > wrong. Most of recently added things into 5.4 in fact are conceptually > simpler. Weak Reference: An object reference that does not prevent GC. I can't imagine something more conceptually simple although the use cases are not very simple. I don't think it's obvious why I am "obviously wrong". > Rapid release cycle doesn't mean that we immediately put into the release > everything that was proposed up to the last second when it's supposed to be > released. I'm referring to the fact that PHP has a major update once a year. Looking at it from an agile perspective this is insanely slow. I think you should use smaller iterations and release faster. The new Mozilla release schedule is a good example. > If you need a solution for your use cases, I don't see how PECL extension > wouldn't be fine. I have no problem compiling extensions and I also don't have any customers on share hosting. Although it wastes a bit more of my time I'm personally fine with PECL. I'm contributing to open source though so I'm concerned with the users that won't be able to run my code because they can't install PECL extensions. I'm also worried that it will takes years for WR to be moved to the core and that nobody will notice or use it. PHP deserves weak references. Not in a year but today. ~Hannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
