Re: [PHP-DEV] APC in 5.4

2011-09-13 Thread Lester Caine

Johannes Schlüter wrote:

In general I'd tend to drop stuff from PHP instead of adding it. We ship
quite a few extensions where I claim that we don't do any testing and
little maintenance. I would reduce the distribution size and include
things we consider "core PHP" and enable these by default in the hope
that gives developers a clear guidance and what they should be able to
expect. (hoping we can convince distributors to have the same things in
their "PHP" meta packages) But that's nothing for 5.4 but for 5.5.
Anybody wants to write an RFC by chance?:-)


Since most of the linux distributors already strip the extra packages and ship 
them self contained in their own packages it IS about time that the 
non-essential extensions were kept separate from the core, so a move to a more 
modular management system is overdue? We can then simply select what we want to 
include with the core rather than the current method of simply ignoring the 
unused extensions?


APC is optional ... like many other extensions ... so only needs to be supplied 
as an option anyway.


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Re: [PHP-DEV] APC in 5.4

2011-09-13 Thread Nathaniel Catchpole
I didn't closely follow the earlier discussions about including APC, but I
(and at least some other people working a lot on Drupal) had been mostly
assuming it'd be included in 5.4 based on those.

The assumption that APC is available by default (if not necessarily enabled)
would allow us to start making more assumptions in Drupal as well over time,
so while I have no stake in the decision, it would not at all be a surprise,
and it'd be very very welcome. If it came in 5.4.1 or something then that'd
make no odds though.

Nat


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Derick Rethans  wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
>
> > The agreement to include apc in 5.4 is an old one, unfortunately the
> > action of doing was just missed. Also, inclusion of the extension
> > won't break any code since it is self contained...
>
> I also thought that APC was going to part of PHP 5.4. And I agree with
> Ilia that it doesn't matter to the overal stability if we bundle it or
> not. It is self contained code, and having it part of the distribution
> means more people play with it and use it, and problems are found
> earlier. Release early, release often.
>
> Having to delay APC, or basically any other self-contained bit of code
> (extensions and new functions/classes/methods) for at least a year, and
> perhaps sometimes up to even 2 years, makes very little sense to me. The
> more ticker tape we get, the slower we innovate.
>
> Of course, it's likely that things will have bugs, but if we mark it as
> "exprimental" in the docs than I see no problems. It makes very little
> sense to not allow any "new" code for a whole new year to filter into
> PHP. It makes developing new exiciting things for PHP a pain as it
> simply sucks to have to wait up to a year and a half for new shiny
> things to appear in PHP.
>
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Re: [PHP-DEV] APC in 5.4

2011-09-13 Thread Johannes Schlüter
Hi,

On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 03:04 +0200, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> This have been a while since we had the discussions about APC in 5.4
> (or in general extensions to move in and out of the Core, but more
> about that in another thread).
> 
> http://markmail.org/message/4w6lcbunw3qfof3c

I think the conclusion was that we should include it (that's btw. a
thought since the beginning of PHP 6) but anytime it was discussed it
was premature.


In general I'd tend to drop stuff from PHP instead of adding it. We ship
quite a few extensions where I claim that we don't do any testing and
little maintenance. I would reduce the distribution size and include
things we consider "core PHP" and enable these by default in the hope
that gives developers a clear guidance and what they should be able to
expect. (hoping we can convince distributors to have the same things in
their "PHP" meta packages) But that's nothing for 5.4 but for 5.5.
Anybody wants to write an RFC by chance? :-)

johannes



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Re: [PHP-DEV] APC in 5.4

2011-09-13 Thread Derick Rethans
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:

> The agreement to include apc in 5.4 is an old one, unfortunately the
> action of doing was just missed. Also, inclusion of the extension
> won't break any code since it is self contained...

I also thought that APC was going to part of PHP 5.4. And I agree with 
Ilia that it doesn't matter to the overal stability if we bundle it or 
not. It is self contained code, and having it part of the distribution 
means more people play with it and use it, and problems are found 
earlier. Release early, release often.

Having to delay APC, or basically any other self-contained bit of code 
(extensions and new functions/classes/methods) for at least a year, and 
perhaps sometimes up to even 2 years, makes very little sense to me. The 
more ticker tape we get, the slower we innovate.

Of course, it's likely that things will have bugs, but if we mark it as 
"exprimental" in the docs than I see no problems. It makes very little 
sense to not allow any "new" code for a whole new year to filter into 
PHP. It makes developing new exiciting things for PHP a pain as it 
simply sucks to have to wait up to a year and a half for new shiny 
things to appear in PHP.

Derick
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Re: [PHP-DEV] APC in 5.4

2011-09-12 Thread Pierre Joye
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Stas Malyshev  wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 9/12/11 5:09 AM, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
>>
>> The agreement to include apc in 5.4 is an old one, unfortunately the
>> action of doing was just missed. Also, inclusion of the extension
>> won't break any code since it is self contained...
>
> If it's an "old one", how comes nobody ever mentioned it during all the
> extensive process of naming features, voting, etc. and didn't bother to
> propose it?

There was a discussion and the conclusion was that APC was not ready
for inclusion. See my other reply.

> I don't feel good about first agreeing to a set of rules and then
> immediately starting to throw them away "just this time, just for this
> occasion". Why have rules and release cycles then?


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Re: [PHP-DEV] APC in 5.4

2011-09-12 Thread Stas Malyshev

Hi!

On 9/12/11 5:09 AM, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:

The agreement to include apc in 5.4 is an old one, unfortunately the
action of doing was just missed. Also, inclusion of the extension
won't break any code since it is self contained...


If it's an "old one", how comes nobody ever mentioned it during all the 
extensive process of naming features, voting, etc. and didn't bother to 
propose it?
I don't feel good about first agreeing to a set of rules and then 
immediately starting to throw them away "just this time, just for this 
occasion". Why have rules and release cycles then?

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Re: [PHP-DEV] APC in 5.4

2011-09-12 Thread Ilia Alshanetsky
The agreement to include apc in 5.4 is an old one, unfortunately the
action of doing was just missed. Also, inclusion of the extension
won't break any code since it is self contained...

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Stas Malyshev  wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 9/8/11 6:04 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote:
>>
>> This have been a while since we had the discussions about APC in 5.4
>> (or in general extensions to move in and out of the Core, but more
>> about that in another thread).
>
> Not saying anything specifically about APC, I think it is way too late to
> propose major features for 5.4 when we're days before beta. So if it's 5.4,
> it's not 5.4.0 for sure.
>
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Re: [PHP-DEV] APC in 5.4

2011-09-09 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Hi

2011/9/9 Stas Malyshev :
> Not saying anything specifically about APC, I think it is way too late to
> propose major features for 5.4 when we're days before beta. So if it's 5.4,
> it's not 5.4.0 for sure.

Well all in all I won't mind adding it in a "patch" release, much like
we added the FPM SAPI in 5.3. Like it was raised in the original
thread, bringing more awareness about an opcode cacher into a standard
distribution of PHP will benefit us all in the long run.


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Re: [PHP-DEV] APC in 5.4

2011-09-08 Thread Stas Malyshev

Hi!

On 9/8/11 6:04 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote:

This have been a while since we had the discussions about APC in 5.4
(or in general extensions to move in and out of the Core, but more
about that in another thread).


Not saying anything specifically about APC, I think it is way too late 
to propose major features for 5.4 when we're days before beta. So if 
it's 5.4, it's not 5.4.0 for sure.


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[PHP-DEV] APC in 5.4

2011-09-08 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Hi

This have been a while since we had the discussions about APC in 5.4
(or in general extensions to move in and out of the Core, but more
about that in another thread).

http://markmail.org/message/4w6lcbunw3qfof3c

I bought this thread up a while back and it had a general approval
feeling among the core guys and those who participate in internal
discussions. So I was wondering if we finally agree on moving APC into
the core, or is it too "late" for that?

As Rasmus has spoken of, then the newly built-in webserver will
greatly help improving the code coverage for APC, while also bringing
some more attention to APC from a developer perspective (other than
those who dwell into pecl/).

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