Its been about a week since RFS for features to go into 5.3 has gone
out and while there was not a "flood" of ideas there is a substantial
list of key changes people would like to go into this release. I've
compiled a list of all of the suggestions I've received, they are
listed below in a form that will hopefully make it easy for people to
vote their yeys and nays. My hope that we can reach an agreement
within 1-2 weeks so 5.3 can be branched and work on it can begin.
List of Feature Ideas
----------------------------
1) Backport the namespaces patch for PHP 6
1 0 -1
2) Symlink the intl extension from PECL, but leave it disabled by
default as is the case with all extensions dependent on external libs
1 0 -1
3) Apply the Late Static Binding Patch
1 0 -1
4) Implement David's Circular Garbage collection patch
1 0 -1
5) Implement Sqlite3 support via the ext/sqlite extension (patch is
already available)
1 0 -1
6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes
1 0 -1
7) Introduce mysqlind library into core and use it as a backend for
PDO and mysqli extensions (possibly enabling them by default)
1 0 -1
8) OpenID enabling patch for OpenSSL and PHP 5
1 0 -1
9) Add array_replace[_recursive] functions (patch is already available)
1 0 -1
10) Split off deprecation from E_STRICT into E_DEPRECATED
1 0 -1
11) Merge the zend_arg_info const'ify patch
1 0 -1
12) Merge the GCC 4 -fvisibility patch
1 0 -1
13) Switch for disabling/enabling materialized cursors in mysqli
1 0 -1
14) Link phar extension from PECL into core (possibly enabling it by
default)
1 0 -1
15) Merge Matt's ZEND_SIGNED_MULTIPLY_LONG() optimization patch
1 0 -1
16) Introduce new php.ini files parser/scanner + CGI/FastCGI?
"htaccess" style ini file support
1 0 -1
17) Merge __callStatic patch from PHP 6
1 0 -1
18) Introduce concept of "strict classes" that do not permit dynamic
property creation
1 0 -1
Ilia Alshanetsky
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