[PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-15 Thread Alexander Valyalkin
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:47:29 +0200 (CEST), Derick Rethans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Alexander Valyalkin wrote: Today I checked file /win32/readdir.c Below you can view its source with my comments. Just a little notice that you succesfully made it into my killfilter. Great j

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-15 Thread George Schlossnagle
Dude. You need to brush up a bit on the inter-personal skills. Starting a flame-war or dick-waving contest on this list is probably not the best way to get your patches accepted. George -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-15 Thread Jason Garber
Hey Alexander, It appears from your posts that you are a very knowledgeable coder who knows how to improve and increase the performance, stability, and security of the PHP program. I think your input could be very valuable. I think there would be a more, let's say, graceful, way of giving your

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-15 Thread Thomas Goyne
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:46:01 -0400, Jason Garber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] I would say that the priority on developing PHP is: 1. Bug Fixes from bugs.php.net 2. Features that are slated for upcoming versions of PHP 3. Recoding old functions to make them faster and more stable where needed

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-15 Thread Bert Slagter
Thomas Goyne wrote: As a user, I personally see placing new features over making old features work better a large mistake. Perhaps that was necessary back in the days of PHP3, but its been a very long time since I've run into simply not being able to do something. Quite often, however, I've

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-15 Thread Lester Caine
Thomas Goyne wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:46:01 -0400, Jason Garber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] I would say that the priority on developing PHP is: 1. Bug Fixes from bugs.php.net 2. Features that are slated for upcoming versions of PHP 3. Recoding old functions to make them faster and more s

RE: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-15 Thread Steph
> The next question is - are both PHP4 and PHP5 going to be run in > parallel, like Apache 1 and 2 so that neither gets finished ;) Darn.. y'mean PHP 4 isn't finished? ;) > > -- > Lester Caine > - > L.S.Caine Electronic Services > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runti

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-15 Thread Lester Caine
Steph wrote: The next question is - are both PHP4 and PHP5 going to be run in parallel, like Apache 1 and 2 so that neither gets finished ;) Darn.. y'mean PHP 4 isn't finished? ;) Well is it approved for use with Apache2? -- Lester Caine - L.S.Caine Electronic Service

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-15 Thread Scott MacVicar
If Alexander could provide proper benchmarks from PHP rather than separate C++ files and if the strings changes could be tested thoroughly with multiple values. I think improving performance would be great, there isn't a developer devoted to improving what already exists. Scott Bert Slagter wr

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-15 Thread Pan qingfeng
I think Fastcgi is a solution to make non-threadsafe PHP extionsion to work with Apache2... that's why I develop my Apache2 module mod_fcgid, it's available on fastcgi.coremail.cn. I think the community will not accept this module as a part of PHP now, but I will make another try when the PHP5.1 is

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Derick Rethans
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Scott MacVicar wrote: > If Alexander could provide proper benchmarks from PHP rather than > separate C++ files and if the strings changes could be tested thoroughly > with multiple values. > > I think improving performance would be great, there isn't a developer > devoted to i

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Derick Rethans
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Lester Caine wrote: > Steph wrote: > >>The next question is - are both PHP4 and PHP5 going to be run in > >>parallel, like Apache 1 and 2 so that neither gets finished ;) > > > > > > Darn.. y'mean PHP 4 isn't finished? ;) > > Well is it approved for use with Apache2? That ha

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Alexander Valyalkin
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:48:35 +0200, Bert Slagter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thomas Goyne wrote: As a user, I personally see placing new features over making old features work better a large mistake. Perhaps that was necessary back in the days of PHP3, but its been a very long time since I've

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Alexander Valyalkin
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:56:37 +0100, Lester Caine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Once PHP5 is out - THEN the sorts of fixes Alexander is suggesting could be looked at - but not until then. Once PHP5 is out - THEN all of my fixes will safely forgotten, on my opinion :) I can't find any serious reaso

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Antony Dovgal
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:06:31 +0300 "Alexander Valyalkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't find any serious reason to apply the pathes into the current > PHP4 and PHP5 versions. Yup. Me too. I can't find any reason to apply not tested patches to both stable & unstable branches. --- WBR, Anton

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
AV>>I can't find any serious reason to apply the pathes into the current AV>>PHP4 and PHP5 versions. PHP5 is in freeze now. Meaning, no changes are done unless they are absolutely critical. The reason is that we want PHP5 to be sufficiently tested and be confident that it is working before relea

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Antony Dovgal
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:55:56 +0300 "Alexander Valyalkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:48:35 +0200, Bert Slagter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > As you could notice, I provide majority of my patches with standalone > test applications, which could be used to track possible

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Alexander Valyalkin
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:11:07 +0400, Antony Dovgal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:06:31 +0300 "Alexander Valyalkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can't find any serious reason to apply the pathes into the current PHP4 and PHP5 versions. Yup. Me too. I can't find any reason to ap

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Antony Dovgal
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:20:33 +0300 "Alexander Valyalkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:11:07 +0400, Antony Dovgal > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:06:31 +0300 > > "Alexander Valyalkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I can't find any serious rea

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Bert Slagter
Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > I understand that you are fully confident that you code would always work. Well, I'm not quite sure of this. Almost EVERY new piece of code Alexander posted on php.internals was followed by one or more revisions within one or two days! For me, this means that the ch

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
BS>>Well, I'm not quite sure of this. Almost EVERY new piece of code BS>>Alexander posted on php.internals was followed by one or more BS>>revisions within one or two days! For me, this means that the chance BS>>that the 'final' code he gives most likely isn't perfect at all... The point is, howev

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
Lester Caine wrote: On the other hand, if code IS working stably then it may be better to leave it alone. I'm not saying don't tidy up code, but ALL the tests against a change need to be in place before a change is applied to the live code, and in some cases it is worth remembering that PHP *IS*

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Alexander Valyalkin
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:03:36 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As Alexander's initial re-implementation of crc32() was broken on 64-bit architectures, I think this is a very good point. Have you tested my initial re-implementation of crc32() on 64-bit architectures? -- Using Opera

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Jun 16, 2004, at 4:06 AM, Alexander Valyalkin wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:56:37 +0100, Lester Caine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Once PHP5 is out - THEN the sorts of fixes Alexander is suggesting could be looked at - but not until then. Once PHP5 is out - THEN all of my fixes will safely forg

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > Lester Caine wrote: > > On the other hand, if code IS working stably then it may be better to > > leave it alone. I'm not saying don't tidy up code, but ALL the tests > > against a change need to be in place before a change is applied to the > > live co

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
Alexander Valyalkin wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:03:36 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you tested my initial re-implementation of crc32() on 64-bit architectures? No, but I don't have to: register unsigned long int crc = ~0ul; ... so crc = 0x do {

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Alexander Valyalkin
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:35:04 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexander Valyalkin wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:03:36 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you tested my initial re-implementation of crc32() on 64-bit architectures? No, but I don't have to: re

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Alexander Valyalkin
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:05:32 -0700 (Pacific Standard Time), Rasmus Lerdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As Alexander's initial re-implementation of crc32() was broken on 64-bit architectures, I think this is a very good point. And his stripslashes() "improvement" actually broke backward compatib

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Alexander Valyalkin wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:05:32 -0700 (Pacific Standard Time), Rasmus Lerdorf > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> As Alexander's initial re-implementation of crc32() was broken on 64-bit > >> architectures, I think this is a very good point. > > >

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-16 Thread Marcus Boerger
Hello Stanislav, Wednesday, June 16, 2004, 10:16:17 AM, you wrote: AV>>>I can't find any serious reason to apply the pathes into the current AV>>>PHP4 and PHP5 versions. > PHP5 is in freeze now. Meaning, no changes are done unless they are > absolutely critical. The reason is that we want PHP5

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-18 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Marcus Boerger wrote: Even i am holding back tons of patches right now to not disturb release process further :-) Why not branch PHP 5.0 now and continue development in HEAD as PHP 5.1? -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ Das Buch zu PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-18 Thread Andi Gutmans
Don't think that's a good idea. I suggest to wait for another 2 weeks or so, then release 5.0.0 and create a 5_0 branch for bug fix releases and 5_1 for bigger changes. BTW, Zeev suggested 4th of July for a release date. I think that's nice timing. Anyone object? (maybe the French? :) Andi At 0

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-18 Thread George Schlossnagle
On Jun 18, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Sterling Hughes wrote: % telnet www.php.net 80 Trying 64.246.30.37... Connected to php.net. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:13:45 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.3.3-dev

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-18 Thread Andrei Zmievski
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Andi Gutmans wrote: > Don't think that's a good idea. I suggest to wait for another 2 weeks or > so, then release 5.0.0 and create a 5_0 branch for bug fix releases and 5_1 > for bigger changes. > BTW, Zeev suggested 4th of July for a release date. I think that's nice > timi

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-18 Thread Daniel Convissor
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 12:27:05PM -0700, Sterling Hughes wrote: > > should take every opportunity we have to test it in a real world > circumstance before releasing it onto the public. Hear, hear! --Dan -- T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y data i

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-18 Thread Derick Rethans
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Andi Gutmans wrote: > Don't think that's a good idea. I suggest to wait for another 2 weeks or > so, then release 5.0.0 and create a 5_0 branch for bug fix releases and 5_1 > for bigger changes. erm, not again. HEAD is main development for 5.1 (read the archives :) > BTW, Ze

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-18 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 11:37 PM 6/18/2004 +0200, Derick Rethans wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Andi Gutmans wrote: > Don't think that's a good idea. I suggest to wait for another 2 weeks or > so, then release 5.0.0 and create a 5_0 branch for bug fix releases and 5_1 > for bigger changes. erm, not again. HEAD is main dev

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-18 Thread Andi Gutmans
At 12:43 PM 6/18/2004 -0700, Andrei Zmievski wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Andi Gutmans wrote: > Don't think that's a good idea. I suggest to wait for another 2 weeks or > so, then release 5.0.0 and create a 5_0 branch for bug fix releases and 5_1 > for bigger changes. > BTW, Zeev suggested 4th of J

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-20 Thread Lester Caine
Zeev Suraski wrote: We'll actually try to move something on www.zend.com to PHP 5 before the release, but definitely not the whole of it. It's a much more complicated site than www.php.net is, though, so it will take longer to actually migrate the whole of it. I don't think it reflects on the

Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-20 Thread Jeremy Johnstone
On Friday 18 June 2004 02:04 pm, Andi Gutmans wrote: > That said, I think it'd be great if there'd be people willing to pitch in > and work on trying to get it to work. Well if it's help which is needed, then I volunteer myself for anything that needs to be done to make it happen. -- Jeremy Joh

Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-18 Thread Sterling Hughes
% telnet www.php.net 80 Trying 64.246.30.37... Connected to php.net. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 18:13:45 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.3.3-dev Location: http://www.php.net/ Connection: close Content-Ty

Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-18 Thread Andi Gutmans
I don't think having php.net run PHP 5 is a pre-requisite for a release. That said, I think it'd be great if there'd be people willing to pitch in and work on trying to get it to work. And I don't see any problem with php.net not running the latest 4.x version either. Most high-traffic websites d

Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-20 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
SH>>Perhaps we should try running php.net and zend.com on php5 before we SH>>release? if we're not even eating our own dogfood yet, it seems SH>>premature to release. As for zend.com, I don't think this is going to happen before the release, if the release dates are what they are announced. Als

Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-20 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 10:28 20/06/2004, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: SH>>Perhaps we should try running php.net and zend.com on php5 before we SH>>release? if we're not even eating our own dogfood yet, it seems SH>>premature to release. As for zend.com, I don't think this is going to happen before the release, if the re

Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-20 Thread Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Zeev Suraski wrote: > I don't think it reflects on the quality of PHP 5. It does reflect on the > fact that migrating is a bit scary. Agreed, but I think that anything we can do to help mitigate these fears will help spur PHP 5 adoption. Deciding to migrate is about reward

Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-20 Thread shimi
I run the il.php.net mirror on php5 from the beta era... It looks to be working fine... On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 17:49, Zeev Suraski wrote: > At 10:28 20/06/2004, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > >SH>>Perhaps we should try running php.net and zend.com on php5 before we > >SH>>release? if we're not even

Re: Re: Re: [PHP-DEV] The open letter to Derick Rethans

2004-06-18 Thread Sterling Hughes
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:04:36 +0200, Andi Gutmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think having php.net run PHP 5 is a pre-requisite for a release. What high traffic site is PHP5 RCx powering at the moment? Where is PHP5 being stress tested? How many people have deployed it for non-academic