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
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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

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