I am really furious now, and this is why:
* People here seem to read things here VERY selectively. On August 4th I
submitted a first proposal, and Rasmus (and ONLY Rasmus) had some problems
with it, being that this would break BC if ppl rely on the reproducibilty of
rand() sequences. THAT WAS THE ONLY COMMENT I GOT.
* On August 16th, I submitted a second proposal, which *IMHO* adressed this
issue. It went a bit more complex of course, but I was hoping to get that
out of the code ASAP, i.e. with the next compatibility breaking PHP.
The code also IMPROVED because there was now, unlike the first proposal, a
PORTABLE and CLEAR and EXPLICIT way of getting a reproducable sequence of
'random' numbers.
Noone commented, even after multiple reminders. By means of (sometimes
personal) mails with some phpdev, I got the idea that those ppl agreed with
me.
* On August 22th, I announced to branch ext/standard to start implementing
the changes. IF SOMEONE HAD PROBLEMS WITH THE CHANGES AN-SICH, HE SHOULD
HAVE SAID IT AT THAT MOMENT. You couldn't have missed the announcment, since
there was a small discussion with Zeev about the branching.
* On August 26th, (subject "rand() redesign - please read") I announced that
the code was alread looking like something, i.e. the general idea was
already clear. I also referred AGAIN to my second proposal.
Again, nobody had problems with it.
* On September 3rd, I merged it into MAIN. And now, suddenly everybody has
problems with both semantics and implementation. I'm stunned. And angry.
All the time from August 22th until September 3rd, you also could have seen
CVS-commit messages on PHP-CVS.
If people are TOO LAZY to read ANY of these mails, they LOOSE IMO the right
to comment to the code as it is today on a way that is done now. I have NO
PROBLEM at all when ppl say something like "On line 123 of rand.c, you do
something like this-and-this, wouldn't that-and-that be more
efficient/better/elegant/whatever. But I DO HAVE PROBLEMS with the reaction
I got so far.
So. I suggest people go read and read again the things I referred to above
when they want to have something to say about the changes. And only then
submit your comments to php-dev. The next few days I won't be able to read
mail a lot, so please don't be inpatient - there's a life outside PHP (at
least for me).
I also suggest we act like there were no mails sent after the merge.
Jeroen
(and I *definitely* also need some positive reactions otherwise you probably
won't see any more patches from me (some people won't care maybe, but that's
their problem))
PS: Egon, go read my reply when you asked that the first time. Wasn't I
clear? It was in plain English though...
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