On 10.05.2013, 5:10 Tim wrote:

> Several people from the HipHop team at Facebook just met with several
> people from WMF. Also, in the last couple of days, I've been doing
> some research into what it would take to make MediaWiki support HipHop
> VM. The answer is: not very much.

> There's two features that we use, mostly in extensions, that the
> Facebook people are not keen to implement due to their complexity:
> ArrayObject and filter_var(). It seems that it would be much easier
> for us to stop using them than for those features to be implemented in
> HipHop.

> So I'd like to suggest that we refuse new code submissions in Gerrit
> that use these features, if they are targeted for WMF production, and
> that we start work on migrating away from the existing uses of those
> features.

> There's a few other SPL features that we don't use at the moment and
> we should avoid introducing if possible due to lack of support in HipHop:

What about namespaces? Last time I heard HH didn't support them - is
it safe to assume that support for them is coming?

-- 
Best regards,
  Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])


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