[PHP-DEV] PHP 4.3 ToDo

[Marcus Börger]

I am commenting some entries from the ToDo here:

>global
>------
> For PHP 4.3.0:
> * Add aliases to functions to conform to new naming conventions, e.g.
> str_to_upper().

some work done - many work needed here.
What about a new compiler define that allows enabling/disabling old function
names and then make a configure switch for that? That would be a good and
simple solution, i guess.

> * Make all extensions thread-safe.

lol: How do we know that? Partly er rely on external libraries...discussed elsewhere

> * Make everything on the language-level independent of your locale
> settings.

many work done - are we ready?

> * Change PHP error messages, so that they point to pages or sections
> in the PHP Manual.

partly done

> * Make sure that all ZTS globals get destructed. Most ts_allocate_id()
> calls should have a dtor entry.

?

> * Activate all extensions by default that don't rely on external
> dependencies. (eg ftp) (DONE?)

not done extreme example is mbstring discussed the last days.

> * on some platforms unimplemented function will just do nothing
> (e.g. symlink) they should print a warning or not even be defined!
> (DONE ?)

partly done or are we already finished in this?

> * Use arg_separator.input to implode args in the CGI sapi extension
> and arg_separator.input to explode in php_build_argv(). (DONE?)

?

> * Implement flush feature suitable for nested output buffers.

Heavily discussed - what will we do next here?

As a conclusion i think we should go for 4.4 and not directly to 5.0.
Additional i would vote for 4.4 being delivered in two offical version one
with ZE1 and one with ZE2.

marcus


--
PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/>
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php