[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP-DEV] ctype function (re?)naming

2001-02-28 Thread Richard Lynch
> It HAS to be time for a big tidy up, as it is clearly impossible to 'do the > right thing' under current circumstances. Problem is, what you see as "untidy" programmers with a background in other languages and software packages see as "convenient". :-) For every "newbie" it helps to have consi

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] What to do about 4.0.5

2001-04-04 Thread Richard Lynch
Maybe I'm just a Luddite, but... Does *any* browser actually compose URLs with ; yet? If nobody's using the standard, why rush to implement? -- Visit the Zend Store at http://www.zend.com/store/ Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: htt

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] 4.0.6 (fwd)

2001-05-03 Thread Richard Lynch
> The question is, if you think people will actually download the RC in order > to test it (as opposed to using it) - why won't they join the QA team? Because they have enough time to make sure their software still works with the RC, but not enough time to wade through all the QA emails. :-) Mos

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP-DEV] RE: [PHP-QA] 4.0.6

2001-05-03 Thread Richard Lynch
How exactly would you define success/failure of the RC?... I mean, if it crashes, you can probably catch that, but what if the output is just incorrect? You're back to the problem of only a pre-determined (and very limited) validation suite can really use this, I think... Or am I just being obt

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP-DEV] Release process

2001-05-03 Thread Richard Lynch
> On Thu, 03 May 2001, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > Yeah but I'm afraid it'll make scripts be written on behavior which > > shouldn't be counted on. > > Maybe in future versions of Zend $array['foo'] won't be defined. There are > > certain situations where I think it was impossible to not define it so

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Modifications to Windows Readme file

2001-05-11 Thread Richard Lynch
> >I think PWS on 95/98 looks in the registry... > Agreed - PWS on these platforms is fundamentally a cut down version of IIS3. > I suspect it is possible to have this on NTWS as well, but PWS4 which comes > with the NT option pack (same CD as IIS4) certainly looks in the Metabase - > though I don

[PHP-DEV] OT? buffer overflow attacks

2002-03-19 Thread Richard Lynch
PHP is in contention for an XML/RPC server/client system for the configuration panel of IPCop (http://ipcop.org) a stand-alone firewall project running on stock hardware with a stripped-down RedHat Linux. This project is a fork from the more infamous SmoothWall, without the, ahem, project man

[PHP-DEV] PHP Future

2002-03-24 Thread Richard Lynch
First, apologies for two (2!) queries in the past couple weeks from a guy who barely can find time to lurk on a thread or two anymore... Hope I haven't used up all my brownie points... Second, I want to thank everybody for their help on the "PHP Security" query -- While IPCop (http://ipcop.org

[PHP-DEV] Release Tea Leaves

2002-06-10 Thread Richard Lynch
Any Wild Guesses about release dates for PHP 5 and/or Zend Engine 2??? A publisher is worried that the book will be hopelessly obsolete before it hits the shelves, rather than the usual obsoleteness... :-^ Thanks in advance, and please cc me. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm My har

[PHP-DEV] PHP 5.0?

2002-07-09 Thread Richard Lynch
Hey there! I'm hearing rumors that ZE2 release will happen Fall 2002 and that will make it PHP 5.0, not 4.x... Any comment, on or off record?... A book publisher I'm working with kinda needs to know whether to change the project requirements and release later, or push release "soon" and worry a

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: [PHP-DEV] 4.0.4pl1 RC2 rolled

2001-01-10 Thread Richard Lynch
> environment, and win32 mod_php4 happens to be rock solid (when Is PHP ISAPI rock-solid now?... That's not the general impression I've received: If it depends on which other modules/technoligies you use, that needs to be documented pretty heavily before one could really call it rock-solid. An

[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Re: PHP-4.0.7RC1

2001-08-17 Thread Richard Lynch
Relying on initialization by the system instead of doing it by hand is bad. What if somebody then includes your file into something else, but has used that variable, but their final value is usually 0, except when it's not... Then, your code works for a while and then inexplicably breaks. Alway