On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes, that's true, and that's part of the reason I'm flagging this >> change on the mailing list. Domas says that the HipHop team is working >> on PHP 5.3 support, so maybe the issue won't come up. But yes, in >> principle, I am saying that we should support HipHop even when it >> means not using new features from PHP. >> >> PHP 5.3 might be cool, but so is cutting our power usage by half (pun >> intended). > > Okay, then I'm all in favor.
Plus, free C++ MediaWiki parser ;-) Seriously, there should be a way to turn the entire package into a (huge) library; maybe transpile it and then replace the C++ code for index.php with a manually written library interface? Offline readers, scientific analysis tools, etc. could profit massively from an always-current, fast C++ library... Magnus _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
