Re: [PHP-DEV] back to 5.4 alpha

2010-08-12 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! 1. What's missing and should be added? First thing perhaps ... which IS Pierre's problem ... Windows snapshots But short of trawling the commit tree ... what HAS already been added? ( links to the CURRENT release notes from the windows site are broken by the way ) We have NEWS for

Re: [PHP-DEV] back to 5.4 alpha

2010-08-12 Thread Lester Caine
Stas Malyshev wrote: 1. What's missing and should be added? First thing perhaps ... which IS Pierre's problem ... Windows snapshots But short of trawling the commit tree ... what HAS already been added? ( links to the CURRENT release notes from the windows site are broken by the way ) We

[PHP-DEV] What is still missing from windows builds ...

2010-08-12 Thread Lester Caine
Currently I am still working my way through the holes in PHP5.3.x which is why PHP5.2 is STILL the last stable release as far as my ( windows ) customer sites are concerned. SO sensible debate on the next step forward IS more important and What's wrong with 5.3 on windows (separate topic

Re: [PHP-DEV] back to 5.4 alpha

2010-08-12 Thread Alexey Zakhlestin
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Stas Malyshev wrote: 1. What's missing and should be added? First thing perhaps ... which IS Pierre's problem ... Windows snapshots But short of trawling the commit tree ... what HAS already been added? ( links to the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Strict typing

2010-08-12 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 04:02 12/08/2010, Josh Davis wrote: What would be interesting to see is what people think of Derick's latest proposal allowing both the strict typechecking and the more sensible weak typing There's nothing new about it, it's been on the table for around half a year now. Everyone who

[PHP-DEV] Re: What is still missing from windows builds ...

2010-08-12 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! A number of extensions were dropped because of the rules applied to building them. In my case php_interbase is missing, and since Firebird is the only database I use it's something of a problem. So we simply build it and supply it from the Firebird site. But other extensions are also still

Re: [PHP-DEV] Strict typing

2010-08-12 Thread Victor Bolshov
If there were only two options left on earth, strict typing and strict+auto-conversion, I'd vote for going with just strict. Completely agree. I'm against strict approach, but I would prefer strict to strict+auto-conversion. I see a sense in weak typehints. I see a lesser sense in strict. And

Re: [PHP-DEV] Strict typing

2010-08-12 Thread Daniel Egeberg
2010/8/12 Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com: At 04:02 12/08/2010, Josh Davis wrote: What would be interesting to see is what people think of Derick's latest proposal allowing both the strict typechecking and the more sensible weak typing Everyone who opposes strict typing on grounds that it's an

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: What is still missing from windows builds ...

2010-08-12 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Stas Malyshev smalys...@sugarcrm.comwrote: Hi! A number of extensions were dropped because of the rules applied to building them. In my case php_interbase is missing, and since Firebird is the only database I use it's something of a problem. So we simply

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is still missing from windows builds ...

2010-08-12 Thread Tomas Kuliavas
2010.08.12 09:59 Lester Caine rašė: Currently I am still working my way through the holes in PHP5.3.x which is why PHP5.2 is STILL the last stable release as far as my ( windows ) customer sites are concerned. SO sensible debate on the next step forward IS more important and What's

Re: [PHP-DEV] back to 5.4 alpha

2010-08-12 Thread Derick Rethans
(after clarification on what Zeev meant, there was a bit of a follow up that I'm posting as reply): On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Zeev Suraski wrote: How is it different from having both options? Given enough time isn't it exactly the same thing? Argument verification should not be a customizable

Re: [PHP-DEV] Strict typing

2010-08-12 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 10:57 12/08/2010, Daniel Egeberg wrote: Everyone who opposes strict typing on grounds that it's an alien feature to PHP(*) doesn't see any advantages in this suggestion Perhaps if you stopped pretending to know everybody's opinion Suggest you re-read what I said, you didn't seem to

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: What is still missing from windows builds ...

2010-08-12 Thread Lester Caine
Ferenc Kovacs wrote: - setting up a (free) build environment for php on windows is PITA. at least that was it, when I did last time. there are multiple how-to, but almost all of them is outdated. thanks again to Pierre ( http://www.php.net/~pierre/ http://www.php.net/%7Epierre/ ) for manually

Re: [PHP-DEV] back to 5.4 alpha

2010-08-12 Thread Lester Caine
Alexey Zakhlestin wrote: But the main point was ... where is the NEWS for all the features added to trunk? We need the alpha to create the news to decide what needs changing before releasing. http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/trunk/NEWS?view=markup Simple example of the problem with

Re: [PHP-DEV] What is still missing from windows builds ...

2010-08-12 Thread Pierre Joye
fixed in 5.3.3, see the bug report too. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Tomas Kuliavas to...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: 2010.08.12 09:59 Lester Caine rašė:   Currently I am still working my way through the holes in PHP5.3.x which is why   PHP5.2 is STILL the last stable release as far as

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: What is still missing from windows builds ...

2010-08-12 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Ferenc Kovacs i...@tyrael.hu wrote: And some more. Pierre mentioned that the firebird extension will be bundled with 5.3.3 but AFAIK it didn't happened. There are some info about the missing extensions here: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=46971 Many

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: What is still missing from windows builds ...

2010-08-12 Thread Lester Caine
Stas Malyshev wrote: That doesn't make 5.3 unstable though... Unstable no .. and even php_interbase is perfectly stable on it! Unusable no .. A pain because you have to add stuff from various sites which were once all bundled on php.net ... most definitely yes A download of PHP5.2.x simply

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: What is still missing from windows builds ...

2010-08-12 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: A download of PHP5.2.x simply works out of the box on windows ... currently some of us have to jump through hoops to create a downloadable windows build of 5.3 that our customers can use. The problem is quite

Re: [PHP-DEV] back to 5.4 alpha

2010-08-12 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Am 12.08.2010 10:31, schrieb Derick Rethans: Well, PHP wouldn't support it directly. But it would allow a zend extension like Xdebug to provide a strict validation function while debugging and development. Very similar to the overloaded zend_error_cb and var_dump() function. During

Re: [PHP-DEV] back to 5.4 alpha

2010-08-12 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Am 11.08.2010 20:30, schrieb Stas Malyshev: What do you think? +1 :-) -- Sebastian BergmannCo-Founder and Principal Consultant http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://thePHP.cc/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: What is still missing from windows builds ...

2010-08-12 Thread Lester Caine
Pierre Joye wrote: A download of PHP5.2.x simply works out of the box on windows ... currently some of us have to jump through hoops to create a downloadable windows build of 5.3 that our customers can use. The problem is quite definitely because of the quagmire of library versions that

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: What is still missing from windows builds ...

2010-08-12 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Pierre Joye pierre@gmail.com wrote: hi, On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Ferenc Kovacs i...@tyrael.hu wrote: And some more. Pierre mentioned that the firebird extension will be bundled with 5.3.3 but AFAIK it didn't happened. There are some

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: What is still missing from windows builds ...

2010-08-12 Thread Lester Caine
Ferenc Kovacs wrote: I will/have to set up my windows buildbox again, but as far as I can remember last time when I did (probably a year ago) I run into more than one problem about dependencies (bison, flex), and there was some discussion on the mailing list about that there is more than one

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PECL-DEV] Experimental MySQL-related extensions

2010-08-12 Thread Melanie Rhianna Lewis
On 12 Aug 2010, at 16:04, Johannes Schlüter wrote: While discussing this via IRC it was suggested to create an Experimental top-level category on pecl.php.net and put them there. To me this looks like a good proposal. From there they can easily be picked up, be extended, provide ideas for

Re: [PHP-DEV] Closures as methods (and Closure::bind)

2010-08-12 Thread Gustavo Lopes
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:57:47 +0100, Johannes Schlüter johan...@schlueters.de wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 14:38 +0100, Gustavo Lopes wrote: I've updated the wiki page for Closures with objects extension with things that are in Proposal A with modifications but are not implemented:

Re: [PHP-DEV] How to get script filename in module RINIT function

2010-08-12 Thread Bostjan Skufca
Yes, that did it! I was wondering what those SG and EGs are :) Anyway, the EG(included_files) would not work, because hash values (file paths) are not stored, only keys. Snippet from Zend/zend.h ... zend_hash_add(EG(included_files), file_handle-opened_path, strlen(file_handle-opened_path)+1,

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PECL-DEV] Experimental MySQL-related extensions

2010-08-12 Thread Pierre Joye
why did this mail end to internals? Please don't cross post or change lists w/o good reasons :) On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Melanie Rhianna Lewis cybersp...@php.net wrote: On 12 Aug 2010, at 16:04, Johannes Schlüter wrote: While discussing this via IRC it was suggested to create an

Re: [PHP-DEV] back to 5.4 alpha

2010-08-12 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
On 12.08.2010, at 00:39, Pierre Joye wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Ilia Alshanetsky i...@prohost.org wrote: Pierre, With all due respect, there are plenty of things already in trunk to make it a worth while effort to start planning the 5.4 release. Just because you disagree, an