[PHP-DEV] Re: What to do with bundled GD's version info?

2018-02-04 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hi Christoph, Christoph M. Becker wrote: So the question is how to handle the version information of the bundled libgd for the time being. With regard to gd_info()['GD Version'] just saying "bundled" (without any compatibility statement) might be a good solution. However, I'm at a loss how

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][DISCUSSION] Deprecation of fallback to root scope

2018-02-04 Thread Levi Morrison
On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > >> To get the same benefits (jit and such) wouldn't it be better to introduce >> a "use function root;" or similar statement or a declare() to specify this >> file imports all root functions? > > We already

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][DISCUSSION] Deprecation of fallback to root scope

2018-02-04 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > To get the same benefits (jit and such) wouldn't it be better to introduce > a "use function root;" or similar statement or a declare() to specify this > file imports all root functions? We already have this right now, and realistically speaking, who wouldn't do that in their code instead

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][DISCUSSION] Deprecation of fallback to root scope

2018-02-04 Thread Benjamin Eberlei
On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 9:27 AM, Wes wrote: > Hello PHPeople. I just published the RFC "Deprecation of fallback to root > scope". > > It is quite a substantial change, but as you can read in the RFC, can be a > (basically) transparent one. > I'm referring to the possibility

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][DISCUSSION] Deprecation of fallback to root scope

2018-02-04 Thread Rowan Collins
On 3 February 2018 08:27:18 GMT+00:00, Wes wrote: >Hello PHPeople. I just published the RFC "Deprecation of fallback to >root >scope". > >It is quite a substantial change, but as you can read in the RFC, can >be a >(basically) transparent one. >I'm referring to the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Potential adoption of run-tests.php replacement

2018-02-04 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > There is a project I've created a long time ago and still maintaining > (https://github.com/nazar-pc/phpt-tests-runner) that should be able to run > most of the tests without changes already with colored output and the whole > thing is a fraction of run-tests.php's size. Some notes: -

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][DISCUSSION] Deprecation of fallback to root scope

2018-02-04 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > I hope you like it. Let me know what you think. > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/fallback-to-root-scope-deprecation I do not see how this makes sense. This RFC claims there's no BC breakage, while it deprecates one of the most widely used functions of the language (using unqualified global

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][DISCUSSION] Deprecation of fallback to root scope

2018-02-04 Thread Wes
I just want to add: vote is not very obvious - non internals people are getting too excited about this :P Please consider: People that don't have an IDE that handles the imports automatically, will be effectively forced to prefix \ to everything, which is really ugly. But again, prefixing \ is