Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-20 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
SHPerhaps we should try running php.net and zend.com on php5 before we SHrelease? if we're not even eating our own dogfood yet, it seems SHpremature to release. As for zend.com, I don't think this is going to happen before the release, if the release dates are what they are announced. Also, I

Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-20 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 10:28 20/06/2004, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: SHPerhaps we should try running php.net and zend.com on php5 before we SHrelease? if we're not even eating our own dogfood yet, it seems SHpremature to release. As for zend.com, I don't think this is going to happen before the release, if the release

Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-20 Thread Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Zeev Suraski wrote: I don't think it reflects on the quality of PHP 5. It does reflect on the fact that migrating is a bit scary. Agreed, but I think that anything we can do to help mitigate these fears will help spur PHP 5 adoption. Deciding to migrate is about reward

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-20 Thread Jeremy Johnstone
On Friday 18 June 2004 02:04 pm, Andi Gutmans wrote: That said, I think it'd be great if there'd be people willing to pitch in and work on trying to get it to work. Well if it's help which is needed, then I volunteer myself for anything that needs to be done to make it happen. -- Jeremy

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-18 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Marcus Boerger wrote: Even i am holding back tons of patches right now to not disturb release process further :-) Why not branch PHP 5.0 now and continue development in HEAD as PHP 5.1? -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ Das Buch zu PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-18 Thread Andi Gutmans
Don't think that's a good idea. I suggest to wait for another 2 weeks or so, then release 5.0.0 and create a 5_0 branch for bug fix releases and 5_1 for bigger changes. BTW, Zeev suggested 4th of July for a release date. I think that's nice timing. Anyone object? (maybe the French? :) Andi At

Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-18 Thread Sterling Hughes
% telnet www.php.net 80 Trying 64.246.30.37... Connected to php.net. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:13:45 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.3.3-dev Location: http://www.php.net/ Connection: close

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-18 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Jun 18, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Sterling Hughes wrote: % telnet www.php.net 80 Trying 64.246.30.37... Connected to php.net. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:13:45 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.3.3-dev

Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-18 Thread Andi Gutmans
I don't think having php.net run PHP 5 is a pre-requisite for a release. That said, I think it'd be great if there'd be people willing to pitch in and work on trying to get it to work. And I don't see any problem with php.net not running the latest 4.x version either. Most high-traffic websites

Re: Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-18 Thread Sterling Hughes
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:04:36 +0200, Andi Gutmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think having php.net run PHP 5 is a pre-requisite for a release. What high traffic site is PHP5 RCx powering at the moment? Where is PHP5 being stress tested? How many people have deployed it for non-academic

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-18 Thread Andrei Zmievski
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Andi Gutmans wrote: Don't think that's a good idea. I suggest to wait for another 2 weeks or so, then release 5.0.0 and create a 5_0 branch for bug fix releases and 5_1 for bigger changes. BTW, Zeev suggested 4th of July for a release date. I think that's nice timing.

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-18 Thread Daniel Convissor
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:27:05PM -0700, Sterling Hughes wrote: should take every opportunity we have to test it in a real world circumstance before releasing it onto the public. Hear, hear! --Dan -- T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y data

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-18 Thread Derick Rethans
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Andi Gutmans wrote: Don't think that's a good idea. I suggest to wait for another 2 weeks or so, then release 5.0.0 and create a 5_0 branch for bug fix releases and 5_1 for bigger changes. erm, not again. HEAD is main development for 5.1 (read the archives :) BTW, Zeev

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-18 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 11:37 PM 6/18/2004 +0200, Derick Rethans wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Andi Gutmans wrote: Don't think that's a good idea. I suggest to wait for another 2 weeks or so, then release 5.0.0 and create a 5_0 branch for bug fix releases and 5_1 for bigger changes. erm, not again. HEAD is main

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-18 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 12:43 PM 6/18/2004 -0700, Andrei Zmievski wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Andi Gutmans wrote: Don't think that's a good idea. I suggest to wait for another 2 weeks or so, then release 5.0.0 and create a 5_0 branch for bug fix releases and 5_1 for bigger changes. BTW, Zeev suggested 4th of July

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Derick Rethans
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Scott MacVicar wrote: If Alexander could provide proper benchmarks from PHP rather than separate C++ files and if the strings changes could be tested thoroughly with multiple values. I think improving performance would be great, there isn't a developer devoted to

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Derick Rethans
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Lester Caine wrote: Steph wrote: The next question is - are both PHP4 and PHP5 going to be run in parallel, like Apache 1 and 2 so that neither gets finished ;) Darn.. y'mean PHP 4 isn't finished? ;) Well is it approved for use with Apache2? That has nothing to

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Alexander Valyalkin
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:48:35 +0200, Bert Slagter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Goyne wrote: As a user, I personally see placing new features over making old features work better a large mistake. Perhaps that was necessary back in the days of PHP3, but its been a very long time since I've

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Alexander Valyalkin
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:56:37 +0100, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once PHP5 is out - THEN the sorts of fixes Alexander is suggesting could be looked at - but not until then. Once PHP5 is out - THEN all of my fixes will safely forgotten, on my opinion :) I can't find any serious reason

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Antony Dovgal
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:06:31 +0300 Alexander Valyalkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find any serious reason to apply the pathes into the current PHP4 and PHP5 versions. Yup. Me too. I can't find any reason to apply not tested patches to both stable unstable branches. --- WBR, Antony

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
AVI can't find any serious reason to apply the pathes into the current AVPHP4 and PHP5 versions. PHP5 is in freeze now. Meaning, no changes are done unless they are absolutely critical. The reason is that we want PHP5 to be sufficiently tested and be confident that it is working before

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Antony Dovgal
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:55:56 +0300 Alexander Valyalkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:48:35 +0200, Bert Slagter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you could notice, I provide majority of my patches with standalone test applications, which could be used to track possible bugs in my

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Alexander Valyalkin
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:11:07 +0400, Antony Dovgal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:06:31 +0300 Alexander Valyalkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find any serious reason to apply the pathes into the current PHP4 and PHP5 versions. Yup. Me too. I can't find any reason to apply

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Antony Dovgal
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:20:33 +0300 Alexander Valyalkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:11:07 +0400, Antony Dovgal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:06:31 +0300 Alexander Valyalkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find any serious reason to apply the

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
BSWell, I'm not quite sure of this. Almost EVERY new piece of code BSAlexander posted on php.internals was followed by one or more BSrevisions within one or two days! For me, this means that the chance BSthat the 'final' code he gives most likely isn't perfect at all... The point is, however,

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
Lester Caine wrote: On the other hand, if code IS working stably then it may be better to leave it alone. I'm not saying don't tidy up code, but ALL the tests against a change need to be in place before a change is applied to the live code, and in some cases it is worth remembering that PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Alexander Valyalkin
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:03:36 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Alexander's initial re-implementation of crc32() was broken on 64-bit architectures, I think this is a very good point. Have you tested my initial re-implementation of crc32() on 64-bit architectures? -- Using

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Jun 16, 2004, at 4:06 AM, Alexander Valyalkin wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:56:37 +0100, Lester Caine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once PHP5 is out - THEN the sorts of fixes Alexander is suggesting could be looked at - but not until then. Once PHP5 is out - THEN all of my fixes will safely

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: Lester Caine wrote: On the other hand, if code IS working stably then it may be better to leave it alone. I'm not saying don't tidy up code, but ALL the tests against a change need to be in place before a change is applied to the live code, and

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
Alexander Valyalkin wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:03:36 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tested my initial re-implementation of crc32() on 64-bit architectures? No, but I don't have to: register unsigned long int crc = ~0ul; ... so crc = 0x do {

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Alexander Valyalkin
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:35:04 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Valyalkin wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:03:36 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tested my initial re-implementation of crc32() on 64-bit architectures? No, but I don't have to:

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Alexander Valyalkin
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:05:32 -0700 (Pacific Standard Time), Rasmus Lerdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Alexander's initial re-implementation of crc32() was broken on 64-bit architectures, I think this is a very good point. And his stripslashes() improvement actually broke backward

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Alexander Valyalkin wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:05:32 -0700 (Pacific Standard Time), Rasmus Lerdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Alexander's initial re-implementation of crc32() was broken on 64-bit architectures, I think this is a very good point. And his

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-16 Thread Marcus Boerger
Hello Stanislav, Wednesday, June 16, 2004, 10:16:17 AM, you wrote: AVI can't find any serious reason to apply the pathes into the current AVPHP4 and PHP5 versions. PHP5 is in freeze now. Meaning, no changes are done unless they are absolutely critical. The reason is that we want PHP5 to be

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-15 Thread George Schlossnagle
Dude. You need to brush up a bit on the inter-personal skills. Starting a flame-war or dick-waving contest on this list is probably not the best way to get your patches accepted. George -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-15 Thread Jason Garber
Hey Alexander, It appears from your posts that you are a very knowledgeable coder who knows how to improve and increase the performance, stability, and security of the PHP program. I think your input could be very valuable. I think there would be a more, let's say, graceful, way of giving your

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-15 Thread Thomas Goyne
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:46:01 -0400, Jason Garber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I would say that the priority on developing PHP is: 1. Bug Fixes from bugs.php.net 2. Features that are slated for upcoming versions of PHP 3. Recoding old functions to make them faster and more stable where needed.

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-15 Thread Bert Slagter
Thomas Goyne wrote: As a user, I personally see placing new features over making old features work better a large mistake. Perhaps that was necessary back in the days of PHP3, but its been a very long time since I've run into simply not being able to do something. Quite often, however,

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-15 Thread Lester Caine
Thomas Goyne wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:46:01 -0400, Jason Garber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I would say that the priority on developing PHP is: 1. Bug Fixes from bugs.php.net 2. Features that are slated for upcoming versions of PHP 3. Recoding old functions to make them faster and more

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-15 Thread Lester Caine
Steph wrote: The next question is - are both PHP4 and PHP5 going to be run in parallel, like Apache 1 and 2 so that neither gets finished ;) Darn.. y'mean PHP 4 isn't finished? ;) Well is it approved for use with Apache2? -- Lester Caine - L.S.Caine Electronic

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans derick@php.net

2004-06-15 Thread Pan qingfeng
I think Fastcgi is a solution to make non-threadsafe PHP extionsion to work with Apache2... that's why I develop my Apache2 module mod_fcgid, it's available on fastcgi.coremail.cn. I think the community will not accept this module as a part of PHP now, but I will make another try when the PHP5.1