On 6/28/07, Zoe Slattery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Derick Rethans wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Zoe Slattery wrote: > > >> Hi >> >> I think there are two user scenarios to consider: >> (a) User works only on platform X and extpects the PHP function to return >> exactly what he would see from (say) the equivalent C function >> (b) User works on multiple platforms and wants his PHP app to behave >> exactly the same way across all of them. >> >> For writing tests it sounds like we are agreeing to follow scenario (a) but to >> makes changes to the doc so that the user in scenario (b) knows why his >> application might not work. >> > > I'd say that PHP should work like in (b) though - everything should work > the same on every platform. > For many, or even most, functions that has to be the goal. But for filesystem functions I'm not sure that it's always practical, for eample chmod() has (as far as I know) no meaning on Windows but is very useful on Linux, so we'd have to differentiate here.
You are right, operating systems specific functions cannot be portable. However we have a couple of issues with some file system (or related functions) which should be solved soon or later. The one I can think about are realpath, basename, dirname or pathinfo (for example, pathinfo should/could be portable (someone reported a bug about it). recently). --Pierre -- PHP CVS Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
