On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >>>No, not really. It was noted by more than one person that it breaks 
> >>>some simple things in PHP, affecting the bahavior of scripts that are 
> >>>already out there. Until it is totally stable (which you yourself it is 
> >>>not yet) it should not be enabled by default. How, after 4.3 is branched 
> >>
> >>What problem?
> > 
> > 
> > For example the bug with the request variables, which might be fixed in 
> > CVS now, but it isn't fixed in any release.
> 
> It was working just like original treat data.
> The bug was introduced someone changed original treat data,
> but forgot to update multibyte version.

This is the reason why I think there should be just one version of every 
piece of code, in this case using the mbstring stuff always would have 
made sense IMO.

> I think this is one of the reason why we should enable it
> by default so that everyone aware how it supposed to work.
> 
> I might forget to merge the fix. I'll check it later.
> 

[snip]

> > You mean the thing on sourceforge here as "development version" ?
> 
> Until we stablize and finish testing the code.
> 
> We would like to mess things up a lot, that's why we're using
> sourceforge. We will merge changes to php.net CVS step by step.
> 
> New filter will be merged after 4.3.0 branch is made. Then
> we'll sync source and start messing it again. (break build, functions,
> engine, etc)
> 
> I guess most of us do not appreciate breaking build, functions and
> engine.

I don't like that indeed, but IMO it's ok in a development version for a 
restricted amount of time.

[snip]

> >>BTW, Derick, could you add mbstring category to bug db?
> >>(AFAIK, there is no category for it)
> > 
> > 
> > It's already there, under "Languages/Translation".
> 
> It's not intuitive to me :)
> Could you change the name like usual extension?

I'll do that as soon as bugs.php.net is up again, which I fear that it 
will take some time *sigh*

regards,

Derick

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