[PHP-DEV] Pull requests report (9/9/2013)

2013-09-09 Thread Lior Kaplan
Hi, The last week brought quite a few new pull requests. I hope we'll keep see new people getting involved. New: #427 https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/427 run-tests.php: Added EXPECT_EXTERNAL, EXPECTF_EXTERNAL, EXPECTREGEX_EXTERNAL #55736 #428 https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/428 Fixed bug

[PHP-DEV] 5.4 DateTimeZone: Supported timezones have changed

2013-09-09 Thread Martin Keckeis
Hello together, just wanted to mention, what the list of supported Timezones has changedin 5.4. It's already mentioned here, that all special timezones, expect of UTC are deprecated: http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.others.php But couldn't found that in the upgrade guide...so i used CET

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 DateTimeZone: Supported timezones have changed

2013-09-09 Thread Lester Caine
Martin Keckeis wrote: Hello together, just wanted to mention, what the list of supported Timezones has changedin 5.4. It's already mentioned here, that all special timezones, expect of UTC are deprecated: http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.others.php But couldn't found that in the upgrade

Re: [PHP-DEV] When will 5.2 binaries be retired from windows.php.net?

2013-09-09 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Thomas Hruska thru...@cubiclesoft.comwrote: It is approaching 2 1/2 years since the last release of PHP 5.2. 5.2 has been declared dead on more than one occasion around here. The dust has more or less settled since PHP 5.3 EOL was announced. The ONLY reason

Re: [PHP-DEV] When will 5.2 binaries be retired from windows.php.net?

2013-09-09 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Ferenc Kovacs tyr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Thomas Hruska thru...@cubiclesoft.comwrote: It is approaching 2 1/2 years since the last release of PHP 5.2. 5.2 has been declared dead on more than one occasion around here. The dust

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 DateTimeZone: Supported timezones have changed

2013-09-09 Thread Martin Keckeis
Hi lester, 2013/9/9 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk Martin Keckeis wrote: Hello together, just wanted to mention, what the list of supported Timezones has changedin 5.4. It's already mentioned here, that all special timezones, expect of UTC are deprecated:

Re: [PHP-DEV] When will 5.2 binaries be retired from windows.php.net?

2013-09-09 Thread Lester Caine
Pierre Joye wrote: There is no link from windows.php.net web sites to 5.2. They only remain in the downloads section, if accessed directly. I think it's the presence of 5.2 on the download page that is being talked about? While I still have reason to use 5.2, I'd support dropping this ti the

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 DateTimeZone: Supported timezones have changed

2013-09-09 Thread Lester Caine
Martin Keckeis wrote: Hi lester, 2013/9/9 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk Martin Keckeis wrote: Hello together, just wanted to mention, what the list of supported Timezones has changedin 5.4. It's already mentioned here, that

Re: [PHP-DEV] When will 5.2 binaries be retired from windows.php.net?

2013-09-09 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
Currently the downloads page on http://php.net/ only lists the supported versions(5.3, 5.4, 5.5) and I think that http://windows.php.net/ should be synced with that, so the 5.2 links should be removed. http://museum.php.net/ already has those binaries, so it would be still available for

Re: [PHP-DEV] When will 5.2 binaries be retired from windows.php.net?

2013-09-09 Thread Julien Pauli
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Ferenc Kovacs tyr...@gmail.com wrote: Currently the downloads page on http://php.net/ only lists the supported versions(5.3, 5.4, 5.5) and I think that http://windows.php.net/should be synced with that, so the 5.2 links should be removed.

Re: [PHP-DEV] When will 5.2 binaries be retired from windows.php.net?

2013-09-09 Thread Pierre Joye
done, was sure it was done since long already. On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Julien Pauli jpa...@php.net wrote: On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Ferenc Kovacs tyr...@gmail.com wrote: Currently the downloads page on http://php.net/ only lists the supported versions(5.3, 5.4, 5.5) and I

Re: [PHP-DEV] When will 5.2 binaries be retired from windows.php.net?

2013-09-09 Thread Lester Caine
Pierre Joye wrote: done, was sure it was done since long already. Pierre ... I think that the 5.2 stuff was left as the only VC6 build. The notes of the side bar refer still to using that when perhaps a 'no longer supported' may be better? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL

Re: [PHP-DEV] When will 5.2 binaries be retired from windows.php.net?

2013-09-09 Thread Pierre Joye
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Pierre Joye wrote: done, was sure it was done since long already. Pierre ... I think that the 5.2 stuff was left as the only VC6 build. The notes of the side bar refer still to using that when perhaps a 'no longer

Re: [PHP-DEV] When will 5.2 binaries be retired from windows.php.net?

2013-09-09 Thread Lester Caine
Pierre Joye wrote: On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Pierre Joye wrote: done, was sure it was done since long already. Pierre ... I think that the 5.2 stuff was left as the only VC6 build. The notes of the side bar refer still to using that when perhaps

[PHP-DEV] segfaulting in php5.5 core when doing function wrapping

2013-09-09 Thread Robert Henry
I have a PHP extension that wraps or replaces function calls. This extension has worked successfully with minimal changes between php versions from PHP 5.1 through PHP 5.4. However, my attempts to port this extension to PHP 5.5 have failed in one case, which makes we wonder about my other

[PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Named parameters

2013-09-09 Thread Nikita Popov
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Nikita Popov nikita@gmail.com wrote: Hi internals! I created an RFC and preliminary implementation for named parameters: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/named_params Thanks for the feedback everyone! I will not answer every mail individually (as many share

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Named parameters

2013-09-09 Thread Daniel Macedo
Nikita, I agree with your views, although, I think your last suggestion comes close to being close to some sort of weird method overloading (the way I understood it). I'd expect B::foo() to throw a warning/error and maybe stop there, and you're considering reaching to the parent method to see if

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Named parameters

2013-09-09 Thread Nikita Popov
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Johannes Schlüter johan...@schlueters.dewrote: From the explanation it sounds like there shouldn't be a high cost, but as fcalls are a key operation and already quite slow I wonder if you could share some benchmarks. (non-debug-non-tsrm-build) A good start

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 DateTimeZone: Supported timezones have changed

2013-09-09 Thread Derick Rethans
On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Martin Keckeis wrote: Hello together, just wanted to mention, what the list of supported Timezones has changedin 5.4. It's already mentioned here, that all special timezones, expect of UTC are deprecated: http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.others.php But

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Named parameters

2013-09-09 Thread Nikita Popov
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Pierre Joye pierre@gmail.com wrote: In no particular order: . Warning: Cannot pass positional arguments after named arguments. Aborting argument unpacking in %s on line %d Would it make more sense to make it a fatal error? As the code will likely not

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 DateTimeZone: Supported timezones have changed

2013-09-09 Thread Derick Rethans
On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Derick Rethans wrote: On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Martin Keckeis wrote: If you use a deprecated Timezone somewhere and don't know it, it's hard to track down...(no exception) I only found it randomly today, that i've used it there and all time data in the database are not

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 DateTimeZone: Supported timezones have changed

2013-09-09 Thread Derick Rethans
On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Martin Keckeis wrote: If you use a deprecated Timezone somewhere and don't know it, it's hard to track down...(no exception) I only found it randomly today, that i've used it there and all time data in the database are not correct... If you use something like:

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 DateTimeZone: Supported timezones have changed

2013-09-09 Thread Lester Caine
Derick Rethans wrote: This is not so much an 'upgrade' note, but rather a update to the timezone library in general. The tz database is being 'rationalised' at the moment, and the base list of zone names simplified, with many of these only being retained for 'backwards' compatibility. Derick

Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 DateTimeZone: Supported timezones have changed

2013-09-09 Thread Derick Rethans
On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Lester Caine wrote: Martin Keckeis wrote: just wanted to mention, what the list of supported Timezones has changedin 5.4. It's already mentioned here, that all special timezones, expect of UTC are deprecated:

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Named parameters

2013-09-09 Thread Nikita Popov
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Daniel Macedo admac...@gmail.com wrote: Nikita, I agree with your views, although, I think your last suggestion comes close to being close to some sort of weird method overloading (the way I understood it). Uh, I think this is a misunderstanding caused by my

Re: [PHP-DEV] When will 5.2 binaries be retired from windows.php.net?

2013-09-09 Thread Pierre Joye
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Pierre ... all I am saying is that the reference to 'older VC6 versions' in the left hand column would benefit from a 'which are only available in the museum', although I would suggest it may be better simply to say 'no

Re: [PHP-DEV] When will 5.2 binaries be retired from windows.php.net?

2013-09-09 Thread Pierre Joye
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Pierre Joye wrote: On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Pierre ... all I am saying is that the reference to 'older VC6 versions' in the left hand column would benefit from a 'which are