RE: [PHP-DEV] I think that Function naming inconsistency bug deservers more attention

2013-01-28 Thread Christian Stoller
You can write String class all by yourself, put it on github and once virtually everybody is using it, we'd gladly discuss including it as a standard extension. In userland we can only do something like $str = new String('my_string_class'); echo $str-length(); But that's useless. It would

[PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Zeev Suraski
Hi, There’s something that I’m not quite following regarding open votes. Why are we saying that ‘votes will end no sooner than X’, instead of actually saying when they *will* end? If there’s no clear end date for a vote, when do we declare than a vote is over? Is it in a specific point in

Re: [PHP-DEV] Patch: Specify temp directory

2013-01-28 Thread ALeX Kazik
Hi, Wouldn't it make more sense to have the ini consistent with the function name, sys_temp_dir? Yes, I think it would. Alex, could you change it? You're right. It's changed. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: Hi, There’s something that I’m not quite following regarding open votes. Why are we saying that ‘votes will end no sooner than X’, instead of actually saying when they *will* end? If there’s no clear end date for

[PHP-DEV] Re: Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Bruno CHALOPIN
Hi, Le Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:22:52 +0200, Zeev Suraski a écrit : Regardless, an ‘open ended’ voting period is unacceptable IMHO. I agree with that. An update of the voting rfc (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ voting) should be made. However one week only seems a little shorter in my opinion to

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Florian Anderiasch
On 01/28/2013 10:22 AM, Zeev Suraski wrote: My suggestion is for voting periods to be limited to one week, regardless of the topic. It should be more than enough. Regardless, an ‘open ended’ voting period is unacceptable IMHO. Whatever the voting period is, IMHO the most important thing

RE: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Zeev Suraski
My suggestion is for voting periods to be limited to one week, regardless of the topic. It should be more than enough. Regardless, an 'open ended' voting period is unacceptable IMHO. You were one of the person who requested to have at least two weeks, so nobody can miss a vote due to

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: My suggestion is for voting periods to be limited to one week, regardless of the topic. It should be more than enough. Regardless, an 'open ended' voting period is unacceptable IMHO. You were one of the person who

RE: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Zeev Suraski
-Original Message- From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 1:07 PM To: Zeev Suraski Cc: PHP internals Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods hi, On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: My suggestion is for

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: I will add a vote on that in the voting RFC, as un update, so we will a clear(er) position for the next RFCs. OK, please put a one week as an option too. To put things in perspective, elections that effect the fate of

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Clint Priest
On 1/28/2013 5:19 AM, Zeev Suraski wrote: I feel that this is what was done in this particular case, not the other way around. That what brought me to bring up that subject here in the first place. This particular RFC was the only RFC where I noticed this weird 'no sooner than' language, and

Re: [PHP-DEV] I think that Function naming inconsistency bug deservers more attention

2013-01-28 Thread Clint Priest
On 1/28/2013 2:09 AM, Christian Stoller wrote: In userland we can only do something like $str = new String('my_string_class'); echo $str-length(); But that's useless. It would be great if method calls on primitive types could be supported, like in Nikic' proof of concept

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Peter Cowburn
On 28 January 2013 12:03, Clint Priest cpri...@zerocue.com wrote: If you're still worried about this making it in, don't worry. Nikita and I have given up, to the determinant of the community. Then please close the voting. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Am 28.01.2013 12:19, schrieb Zeev Suraski: OK, please put a one week as an option too. To put things in perspective, elections that effect the fate of billions of people typically end in 24hrs. But they sometimes require weeks of analysing punch cards ;-) -- Sebastian Bergmann

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Clint, Zeev, On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Clint Priest cpri...@zerocue.com wrote: On 1/28/2013 5:19 AM, Zeev Suraski wrote: I feel that this is what was done in this particular case, not the other way around. That what brought me to bring up that subject here in the first place. This

RE: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Zeev Suraski
Zeev, for one, was one of them asking to have a 2/3 majority for any language related RFC. That's what applies to this RFC, and it is, as of now, accepted. I don't see how the vote is remotely close to a tie. Are you talking about https://wiki.php.net/rfc/propertygetsetsyntax-v1.2? There are

RE: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Zeev Suraski
-Original Message- From: Zeev Suraski [mailto:z...@zend.com] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 3:00 PM To: 'Pierre Joye'; 'Clint Priest' Cc: 'PHP internals' Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods Zeev, for one, was one of them asking to have a 2/3 majority for any language related

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: Zeev, for one, was one of them asking to have a 2/3 majority for any language related RFC. That's what applies to this RFC, and it is, as of now, accepted. I don't see how the vote is remotely close to a tie. Are you talking

RE: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Zeev Suraski
I mean more no matter if it is or not, but the result is not tie anyway, accepted or not. I find the way things are being done right now as a bad thing. There is a time for discussions and argumentations, and there is a time for votes. Coming in with things like that does not give me a good

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Clint Priest
On 1/28/2013 6:12 AM, Peter Cowburn wrote: On 28 January 2013 12:03, Clint Priest cpri...@zerocue.com wrote: If you're still worried about this making it in, don't worry. Nikita and I have given up, to the determinant of the community. Then please close the voting. Since there is no maximum

Re: [PHP-DEV] I think that Function naming inconsistency bug deservers more attention

2013-01-28 Thread Thomas Bley
+1 from that, fortunately since it's an extension it won't be subject to a vote, you can use it or not. :) The core seems to be heavily protected by the core developers. As an APC user, I would be also fine with an extension :-) @pierre Would it be possible to get windows builds from

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Gustavo Lopes
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:17:05 +0100, Gustavo Lopes glo...@nebm.ist.utl.pt wrote: I've opened the vote for the remove calls from incompatible context RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/incompat_ctx#vote The RFC has been accepted unanimously. I'll implement it shortly. The change is trivial

[PHP-DEV] [RFC][result] Define PHP 5.3 end of life

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
A large majority has been in favor of the One year with security fixes only, announce with5.5 final release option. That means PHP 5.3 end of life (no release, no support, etc.) will happen exactly one year after the release of PHP 5.5.0-stable. The announce of the exact date will be done at the

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Alan Knowles
Holy crap, how did you sneak this through.. my apologies for deleting the = vote, but i could not work out how to revert it. But this is a core php feature, for anyone who does not use traits We use this quite a bit, it may not be for purists, but it has worked perfectly for years. This

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Gustavo Lopes
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:17:21 +0100, Alan Knowles a...@roojs.com wrote: my apologies for deleting the = vote, but i could not work out how to revert it. No problem, the result is still available at https://wiki.php.net/rfc/incompat_ctx?rev=1359379541 I don't know want to know what you

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Alan Knowles a...@roojs.com wrote: Holy crap, how did you sneak this through.. what do you mean by sneak? it was proposed and announced in the usual channels. my apologies for deleting the = vote, but i could not work out how to revert it. no problem,

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Alan Knowles
I was trying to vote against, for what it's worth. It's a major bc break with no obvious value, and what appears to be 7 days given to vote when every one is busy discussing a new property syntax. Traits is cute, but this was a amazing feature of the PHP language, not obvious, but it's pretty

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Alan Knowles a...@roojs.com wrote: I was trying to vote against, for what it's worth. trying to re-open the vote and voting after Gustavo announced that the voting was closed? that's sounds a little bit weird. It's a major bc break with no obvious value,

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Leigh
On 28 January 2013 14:49, Alan Knowles a...@roojs.com wrote: I was trying to vote against, for what it's worth. It's a major bc break with no obvious value, and what appears to be 7 days given to vote when every one is busy discussing a new property syntax. See other thread by Zeev :) On

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Leigh
On 30 July 2012 18:31, Gustavo Lopes glo...@nebm.ist.utl.pt wrote: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/incompat_ctx An RFC for deprecating and removing $this from incompatible context. Comments are welcome. Gustavo, my apologies, the ORIGINAL mail did say a little more about it.

RE: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Zeev Suraski
-Original Message- From: Alan Knowles [mailto:a...@roojs.com] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 4:49 PM To: Gustavo Lopes; PHP Internals; Alan Knowles Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context I was trying to vote against, for what it's worth.

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Lester Caine
Ferenc Kovacs wrote: But this is a core php feature, for anyone who does not use traits We use this quite a bit, it may not be for purists, but it has worked perfectly for years. This is getting a bit silly, change for change sake I've found this to be a huge wtf when you bump into,

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Alan Knowles
Ok, just checked the mailing list (and sorry for top-posting) July 31st. RFC announced Jul 31st - 6 or 7 mails at least one very negative, a couple for it. August 1,3,5,6 - 5 or 6 emails getting a bit off-topic. Jan 21st - call to vote (single email - no-one replied on list)... - got 15 +1

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Zeev, On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: -Original Message- Can you explain why you think it's a major BC break? The RFC suggested that the BC break would be minimal and that the likelihood a lot of people used it is very low. If you think

RE: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Zeev Suraski
-Original Message- From: Pierre Joye [mailto:pierre@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 5:46 PM To: Zeev Suraski Cc: Alan Knowles; Gustavo Lopes; PHP Internals Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context hi Zeev, On Mon, Jan 28,

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Ferenc Kovacs wrote: But this is a core php feature, for anyone who does not use traits We use this quite a bit, it may not be for purists, but it has worked perfectly for years. This is getting a bit silly, change

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: What does it mean then? That implementing this RFC waits for 6.0 or that it was invalid in the first place? Both, if the plan is to get that into 5.x. -- Pierre @pierrejoye -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Pierre Joye pierre@gmail.com wrote: hi Zeev, On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: -Original Message- Can you explain why you think it's a major BC break? The RFC suggested that the BC break would be minimal and

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Pierre Joye pierre@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: What does it mean then? That implementing this RFC waits for 6.0 or that it was invalid in the first place? Both, if the plan is to get that into 5.x.

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Gustavo Lopes
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:45:43 +0100, Pierre Joye pierre@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: -Original Message- Can you explain why you think it's a major BC break? The RFC suggested that the BC break would be minimal and that

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Gustavo Lopes glo...@nebm.ist.utl.pt wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:45:43 +0100, Pierre Joye pierre@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: -Original Message- Can you explain why you think it's a

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Pierre Joye pierre@gmail.com wrote: hi, On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Gustavo Lopes glo...@nebm.ist.utl.pt wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:45:43 +0100, Pierre Joye pierre@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Lester Caine
Ferenc Kovacs wrote: Please Lester, could you stop pretending that E_STRICT errors will crash your application and kill all the kittens? There are a bunch of people (myself included) who tries to write E_STRICT free code so that our application is fast and bugfree? Yes, there are people who

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Levi Morrison
I also disagree with an open-ended voting period. I'm fine with having a long voting window, but when a vote is called it should declare when the voting will end. This just makes sense to me. Since we're on the topic of voting, I also want to bring up that 50% + 1 is actually pretty low for

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Ferenc Kovacs wrote: Please Lester, could you stop pretending that E_STRICT errors will crash your application and kill all the kittens? There are a bunch of people (myself included) who tries to write E_STRICT free

RE: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Zeev Suraski
-Original Message- From: Clint Priest [mailto:cpri...@zerocue.com] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 3:15 PM To: Peter Cowburn Cc: Zeev Suraski; Pierre Joye; PHP internals Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods On 1/28/2013 6:12 AM, Peter Cowburn wrote: On 28 January 2013 12:03,

RE: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
On Jan 28, 2013 6:07 PM, Zeev Suraski The community that participates in internals isn't necessarily representative of the community at large. Letzten me clarify my view. I do not attend hyped conferences, because I want to meet are not there. However I meet a lot of our silent community,

RE: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Zeev Suraski
I agree, but we’re in opposite camps on this feature. What does that mean? J I think many of us are purely and simply totally out of sync with our users. I have no immediate solution but this is something we must solve, now.

RE: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
On Jan 28, 2013 6:22 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: I agree, but we’re in opposite camps on this feature. What does that mean? J Go back to our roots? :-)

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Ralf Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 28.01.2013 18:35, schrieb Pierre Joye: On Jan 28, 2013 6:22 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: I agree, but we’re in opposite camps on this feature. What does that mean? J Go back to our roots? :-) Classless, Exception-less and when

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Lester Caine
Zeev Suraski wrote: They speak in volumes - PHP 5.4 is used in less than 1% of the sites using PHP today, and even the relatively revolutionary 5.3 is still a lot less popular than 5.2. The new shiny features are not all that interesting for most people. And I wonder how many of the 1% using

[PHP-DEV] VCS Account Request: tyraeltest10

2013-01-28 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
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[PHP-DEV] VCS Account Approved: tyraeltest10 approved by bjori

2013-01-28 Thread PHP Group
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2013-01-28 Thread PHP Group
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Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
Lester, On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: I'm not going to go back and list the problems. E_STRICT errors DO cause problems running legacy code. I've had plenty of white screens until E_STRICT was switched back off in PHP5.4! Things that are just warnings

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! Zeev, for one, was one of them asking to have a 2/3 majority for any language related RFC. That's what applies to this RFC, and it is, as of now, accepted. I don't see how the vote is remotely close to a tie. I'm sorry, I am seeing 34/21 result. It's 61% for, 39% against - which means, it

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Lazare Inepologlou
2013/1/28 Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com -Original Message- From: Clint Priest [mailto:cpri...@zerocue.com] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 3:15 PM To: Peter Cowburn Cc: Zeev Suraski; Pierre Joye; PHP internals Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods On 1/28/2013 6:12 AM, Peter

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] skipping optional parameters

2013-01-28 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
2012.04.20. 8:08, Stas Malyshev smalys...@sugarcrm.com ezt írta: Hi! I can't estimate the amount of breakage, but what about using underscore (literal _) without quotation marks? This one is taken. See: http://us2.php.net/_ -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM:

[PHP-DEV] Purpose of voting

2013-01-28 Thread Anthony Ferrara
Hey all, After reading the Voting Periods email thread, I'm left wondering a simple question (which has a difficult answer): What should we be voting on when voting on an RFC: on the RFC proposed feature, or on the patch itself? I've always approached it as we're voting for the concept (and

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! I mean more no matter if it is or not, but the result is not tie anyway, accepted or not. Remember we talked about this while discussing voting? What we have here is a huge language feature (and, like it or dislike it, it is a big feature which had a lot of effort, energy and though spent

Re: [PHP-DEV] Purpose of voting

2013-01-28 Thread Will Fitch
On Jan 28, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Anthony Ferrara ircmax...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, After reading the Voting Periods email thread, I'm left wondering a simple question (which has a difficult answer): What should we be voting on when voting on an RFC: on the RFC proposed feature, or on the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Thomas Bley
In the past months, I talked to a lot of German companies using PHP or Java: All PHP companies were using 5.2/5.3 and planned to upgrade to 5.4. Almost all were using default binaries from their favorite Linux distribution on their production systems. Only one was building their own extensions,

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] skipping optional parameters

2013-01-28 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! what is the status of the rfc? were there any reasons why you didn't called for votes? Personally I would prefer named parameters also, and I think that we are too close to the 5.5 feature freeze, but somebody asked why did the progress stopped and I don't think that there were any

[PHP-DEV] Thoughts on scalar objects

2013-01-28 Thread Steve Clay
Re: https://github.com/nikic/scalar_objects Initial impression: This patch reminds me of extending native prototypes in Javascript, with similar limitations that may explain why this has fallen out of fashion in JS. The big one is that allowing change to the prototypes introduces global state

Re: [PHP-DEV] Purpose of voting

2013-01-28 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! What should we be voting on when voting on an RFC: on the RFC proposed feature, or on the patch itself? Either, or both, depending on the RFC and the intent of the author. Note that since there's rarely competing teams/patches on the same feature, accepting the RFC means also accepting the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Anthony Ferrara
Stas, Remember we talked about this while discussing voting? What we have here is a huge language feature (and, like it or dislike it, it is a big feature which had a lot of effort, energy and though spent on it, and also has a lot of consequences for PHP language, which may be good or bad

Re: [PHP-DEV] Purpose of voting

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
hi, On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Anthony Ferrara ircmax...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, After reading the Voting Periods email thread, I'm left wondering a simple question (which has a difficult answer): What should we be voting on when voting on an RFC: on the RFC proposed feature, or on

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! If we introduced BC breaks other than those, then we'd to review them and see why they have been introduced. But one thing is clear: we do not allow BC breaks between 5.x and 5.x+1. We need a better definition of BC break then. Is deprecating an existing feature BC break? Is adding a

RE: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Zeev Suraski
Can we stop calling things new shiny features as if that means anything? It's empty rhetoric. When you treat your users like unintelligent noobies who are just going to hang themselves when you give them a rope, then that's the type of users you will end up with. If it doesn't mean anything,

RE: [PHP-DEV] Purpose of voting

2013-01-28 Thread Zeev Suraski
What should we be voting on when voting on an RFC: on the RFC proposed feature, or on the patch itself? I think it should be exclusively on the concept. We never vote about code changes anywhere - including when we refactor existing parts. Why would we vote about the implementation here? The

[PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] CURLFile uploading API

2013-01-28 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! I've started a vote on CURLFile RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/curl-file-upload#vote Please vote. Looks like the feature has been approved almost anonymously, so I'll be proceeding with merging the pull soon. I'm also planning adding __wakeup there that blocks unserializing CURLFile, for

Re: [PHP-DEV] Purpose of voting

2013-01-28 Thread Levi Morrison
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: What should we be voting on when voting on an RFC: on the RFC proposed feature, or on the patch itself? I think it should be exclusively on the concept. We never vote about code changes anywhere - including when we refactor

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Florin Razvan Patan
To Zeev and the rest of internals, I know this will be a long e-mail but I'm not a guy who goes to conferences (I don't have money for that), I've been into seven companies until now, each with various use cases for PHP and I'm trying to contribute to some open source projects from PHP scene.

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Lester Caine
Zeev Suraski wrote: PHP has become the most popular Web language in existence WITHOUT these features. Most users couldn't care less about them. They're happy without them. They're happ*ier* without them. They'd rather a faster PHP that did exactly the same thing it does today - and not a

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
On Jan 28, 2013 8:41 PM, Stas Malyshev smalys...@sugarcrm.com wrote: Hi! If we introduced BC breaks other than those, then we'd to review them and see why they have been introduced. But one thing is clear: we do not allow BC breaks between 5.x and 5.x+1. We need a better definition of

RE: [PHP-DEV] Purpose of voting

2013-01-28 Thread Zeev Suraski
-Original Message- From: Levi Morrison [mailto:morrison.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 10:04 PM To: Zeev Suraski Cc: Anthony Ferrara; internals@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Purpose of voting On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote:

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [VOTE] CURLFile uploading API

2013-01-28 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! Looks like the feature has been approved almost anonymously, so I'll be Unanimously of course :) -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP-DEV] Purpose of voting

2013-01-28 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Anthony Ferrara ircmax...@gmail.comwrote: Hey all, After reading the Voting Periods email thread, I'm left wondering a simple question (which has a difficult answer): What should we be voting on when voting on an RFC: on the RFC proposed feature, or on the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Purpose of voting

2013-01-28 Thread Derick Rethans
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, Anthony Ferrara wrote: I've always approached it as we're voting for the concept (and details) provided in the RFC. But it appears that other people have been voting on the specifics of the attached patch (so theoretically an RFC could be rejected entirely because some

Re: [PHP-DEV] Purpose of voting

2013-01-28 Thread Patrick ALLAERT
2013/1/28 Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com: What should we be voting on when voting on an RFC: on the RFC proposed feature, or on the patch itself? I think it should be exclusively on the concept. We never vote about code changes anywhere - including when we refactor existing parts. Why would we

Re: [PHP-DEV] Purpose of voting

2013-01-28 Thread Patrick ALLAERT
2013/1/28 Derick Rethans der...@php.net: Both the idea and implementation needs to be sound. If not, I vote no (and that also means no when it makes APC's life harder). This is a bit unfair. APC is just one byte code caching mechanism out there, even if it's the mostly used or most performing

Re: [PHP-DEV] Purpose of voting

2013-01-28 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Patrick ALLAERT patrickalla...@php.netwrote: 2013/1/28 Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com: What should we be voting on when voting on an RFC: on the RFC proposed feature, or on the patch itself? I think it should be exclusively on the concept. We never vote

Re: [PHP-DEV] Purpose of voting

2013-01-28 Thread Arpad Ray
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Ferenc Kovacs tyr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Patrick ALLAERT patrickalla...@php.net wrote: It's perfectly valid to accept an RFC and comment on the implementation on what should be improved or what sucks in it. If one is

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Jan Ehrhardt
Zeev Suraski in php.internals (Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:50:14 +0200): PHP has become the most popular Web language in existence WITHOUT these features. Most users couldn't care less about them. They're happy without them. They're happ*ier* without them. They'd rather a faster PHP that did exactly

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Ryan McCue
Zeev Suraski wrote: The vast majority of the PHP community is a silent one; These people don't participate here on internals; They don't attend conferences; They use it - the vast majority of them in a professional manner - and they picked it because they like it the way it is, not because

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context (example of real usage that will break)

2013-01-28 Thread Alan Knowles
On Monday, January 28, 2013 11:30 PM, Zeev Suraski wrote: Alan, Can you explain why you think it's a major BC break? The RFC suggested that the BC break would be minimal and that the likelihood a lot of people used it is very low. If you think differently and share it it might put it in a

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Jan, On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Jan Ehrhardt php...@ehrhardt.nl wrote: De spijker op z'n kop, as the saying over here in Amsterdam is. There are two reasons why I try to change to PHP 5.4 once in a while: 1. In my testing it is a little bit (10%) faster than PHP 5.3. 2. PHP 5.3 will

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! ago I was once again confronted with errors under PHP 5.4. The module, responsible for the error: Content Access. http://drupal.org/node/1533186 I see there: Notice: Array to string conversion in form_process_checkbox(). This means the module has a bug, and pretty bad one at that,

Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context (example of real usage that will break)

2013-01-28 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! I've used this in other places, it's basically lightweight traits, and has always been perfectly valid code. There does not seem to be a clear justification for deprecating it other than, It's not the way 'some' people like code to work... Well, I think the reason is that this code is

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Larry Garfield
On 01/28/2013 08:54 PM, Ryan McCue wrote: Zeev Suraski wrote: The vast majority of the PHP community is a silent one; These people don't participate here on internals; They don't attend conferences; They use it - the vast majority of them in a professional manner - and they picked it because

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Ryan McCue
Larry Garfield wrote: Hi Ryan. While I understand that level of conservatism, I think it is somewhat unfounded. The PHP community at large decided to deprecate PHP 4 en masse, and put hosts on notice. It worked, too. The GoPHP5 project included over 100 projects and 200 hosts that

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Larry Garfield
On 01/29/2013 01:30 AM, Ryan McCue wrote: If Wordpress announced that it was going to start requiring PHP 5.3 as of some date 6+ months in the future (and there are advantages to doing so that don't require major BC breaking rewrites), I think you'd see a rather significant abandonment of PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] Voting periods

2013-01-28 Thread Ryan McCue
Larry Garfield wrote: It's great to hear you say that, given that the messaging coming out of WP at the time was rather hostile. :-) As I noted, the dynamics have changed significantly. I'd say that core committer team as a whole is now much less conservative than before, although they're still