On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:31 AM, dan nessett<[email protected]> wrote: > One of the first problems to solve in developing the proposed CPRT is how to > call a function with the same name in two different MW distributions. I can > think of 3 ways: 1) use the Namespace facility of PHP 5.3, 2) use threads, or > 3) use separate process and IPC. Since MAMP supports none of these I am off > building an AMP installation from scratch. > > Some questions: > > * Are there other ways to solve the identifier collision problem? > > * Are some of the options I mention unsuitable for a MW CPRT, e.g., currently > MW only assumes PHP 5.0 and requiring 5.3 may unacceptably constrain the user > base. > > * Is MW thread safe? > > Dan > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
I can't really answer to the rest of it, but anything that _requires_ 5.3 would be a no-go at this point. I doubt all of our developers are even on it yet, much less the user base :) -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
