Hey, The Zend Engine 2 has made lots of progress. I think we should have a discussion of what other things besides the scripting engine we'd like to change for PHP 5. I know there was talk on deprecating some stuff such as old-style function names, moving extensions to PECL etc.. I think it's a good time to start discussing some of these issues (hopefully we can keep things short :) Also, let's try and keep the scope to realistic changes which won't turn PHP upside down and which are doable within a relatively short period of time. I think it'd be really cool if we could get an alpha of PHP 5 out by Spring.
Unrelated, I'm still waiting to hear exactly what mechanism the PEAR guys implemented for PECL. I know that if it's not a really cool easy to use mechanism I would prefer to wait until we write one. One of the main strengths of PHP is that everything is bundled together and is easy to setup. We shouldn't make it much harder on people. Although we're planning on only move the unimportant extensions out of PHP I still think it should be extremely easy to get a list of available extensions (maybe even a part of the ./configure process) and to easily download/configure/install them. Andi -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
