RE: Re: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-26 Thread Andi Gutmans
Guys, I suggest we stop this thread now. It's just taking up time we could use to more fruitfully in improving PHP. Please move any further rants off the internals mailing list and keep them personal. I do think that if there are some concrete suggestions to be heard that's fine, but try and

Re: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-26 Thread Hartmut Holzgraefe
Daniel C. wrote: Things like Maybe we shouldn't advertise feature sets that are still experimental and Maybe we should finish up with these libraries before we move on to new ones. Later he suggested that experimental libraries be removed from the core installation. We are already doing this.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-26 Thread Hartmut Holzgraefe
David Zülke wrote: Microsoft with it's 95% browser market share [...] has the responsibility They don't care about 'responsibility' at all to continue development of Internet Explorer, because otherwise the IE developement hasn't happened in years, they are just now rebuilding the team they

RE: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-26 Thread Naik, Roshan
Rasmus wrote: Really ? Are you sure ? http://www.zend.com/zend/week/week146.php Ok, one self-serving fix. I was (again) expecting exactly that kind of response. I dont understand why so much arrogance exists among a select few. And it unfortunately reflects the community's attitude. So

RE: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-26 Thread Naik, Roshan
PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again Rasmus wrote: Really ? Are you sure ? http://www.zend.com/zend/week/week146.php Ok, one self-serving fix. I was (again) expecting exactly that kind of response

RE: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-26 Thread Andi Gutmans
Oh boy, if you don't see the difference between concrete suggestions to be heard that's fine, but try and keep it short, to the point, and constructive and the email you sent then it is really preferable to everyone here for you to stop emailing this list. Andi -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime

RE: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-26 Thread Zeev Suraski
Roshan, I have to say I agree with many of the points you're making, and disagreeing with quite a few as well. Since I do agree with Andi that for whatever reason, this thread has turned non-constructive, I won't reply point by point. The main point I agree with you about is that it doesn't

RE: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-26 Thread John Coggeshall
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 17:14, Naik, Roshan wrote: I dont beleive all the people are being pissed off. They are just I didn't even bother reading past this line, and I'll be surprised if anyone else responds to this because chances are you've already been filtered out of existence. You're

RE: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-26 Thread Naik, Roshan
Andi wrote: Oh boy, if you don't see the difference between concrete suggestions to be heard that's fine, but try and keep it short, to the point, and constructive There were concrete solutions (if you cared to read. so atleast read this one all the way) And were also backed up by

Re: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-26 Thread Christian Stocker
Just to stop some maybe upcoming myths On 26.8.2004 2:32 Uhr, Naik, Roshan wrote: sockets, openssl, domxml are very useful extensions. Will these (and all the others) ever get out of experimental ? In PHP 5, dom and xsl are not EXPERIMENTAL anymore. This change should have happend already with

Re: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-25 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Naik, Roshan wrote: Hopefully belts will be tightened up around the extensions and the responsibility taken up by their authors. Wow, that was quite a rant from someone who hasn't contributed a damn thing. People volunteer their time and effort to this project. There are

Re: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-25 Thread Andi Gutmans
Thanks for this quite useless and unproductive email. I suggest to inform yourself slightly better on the tons of improvements the PHP development team have made and where we are today vs. 4 years ago. I suggest next time, if you want to be productive, you can contact us with a concrete problem

Re: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-25 Thread Ilia Alshanetsky
On August 25, 2004 08:32 pm, Naik, Roshan wrote: And exactly how long is it expected to continue to stay EXPERIMENTAL ? The response was a predictable one, expressing indifference... Between 15 days and 15 months I'm afraid Derick's response was somewhat incorrect. Here is a more

Re: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-25 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Aug 25, 2004, at 10:22 PM, Naik, Roshan wrote: Nothing prevents us from treating people with patience and courtesy. Except of course bad manners and bad attitude. Posting this quote in this thread is beyond ironic. George -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe,

RE: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-25 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Naik, Roshan wrote: Wow, that was quite a rant from someone who hasn't contributed a damn thing. Really ? Are you sure ? http://www.zend.com/zend/week/week146.php Ok, one self-serving fix. Even if I were someone who never contributed anything to php and is just a user of it

Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-25 Thread Daniel C.
Here we have a polite, if provocative, email, and two very nasty and rude responses to it. Followed by a polite response from Roshan. If you walk into a room and see an argument where one side is yelling and being rude, and one person is responding calmly and politely, who would you

Re: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-25 Thread Sterling Hughes
Both you and roshan are more than welcome, if not encouraged, to stop posting if you find us childish, immature and generally uncool dude. We apologize for our inferiority, we really wish we had something better to do than respond to your mails. -Sterling Here we have a polite, if

RE: Re: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-25 Thread David Zülke
] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again Here we have a polite, if provocative, email, and two very nasty and rude responses to it. Followed by a polite response from Roshan. If you walk into a room and see an argument where one side is yelling and being rude

Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-25 Thread Thomas Goyne
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 06:54:38 +0200, David Zülke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you develop software, be it open or closed sourced, and this software becomes a great success, you bear some responsibility. Microsoft with it's 95% browser market share (and I don't care if it's 80%, 10%, 99%,

RE: Re: [PHP-DEV] Unfulfilled promises... forever experimental extensions... all over again

2004-08-25 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, David Zülke wrote: Same thing goes for PHP. You've developed something tens or houndreds of thousands of developers all over the world are using. They rely on what you tell them, their businesses rely on that, they need to move on, they need reliable, stable software. Software