On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:00:42AM -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> >
> > > We need to do some thinking about this 4.1 business, before we actually do
> > > anything. Please don't branch anything at this point - we've had a fairly
> > > bad experience with premature branching with PHP 3.1.
> > >
> > don't worry, I wasn't planning on creating the branch :)
> >
> > > We need to get a clear understanding of what's going to be the main changes
> > > in PHP 4.1, and then shift 99% of the development to it. We've been
> > > discussing this in the group@ forum, and should now move the discussion
> > > here. Generally, the main differences we came up with so far are (as per
> > > Stig):
> > > - Move most of the non-popular extensions out of the release and into PEAR
> > > (requires lots of PEAR work to be made)
> >
> > definetly :)
> >
> > deciding which extensions are non-popular should be, uhhhhhhhhh, fun. :)))
> One possible way to determine it is to run poll on php.net sites (as well
> as zend.com ones) where people could select extensions
> 1) they are working with;
> 2) they are planning to use when they'll be more stable;
> 3) they are considering important supporting for PHP itself as well;
>
> These three positions will provide enough info to select important
> extensions, to see 'most wanted' from new stuff. #3 is a check point poll
> which will allow to make possible errors and personal preferences lower.
I was also thinking of this, but as Zeev mentioned these are easily
spoofed and really don't carry more than interest value (we only reach a
certain portion of our audience, people who answer may represent 1% of our
market, etc.)
-Sterling
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