Re: [RFC] 64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer

From: Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:25:33 +0000
Subject: Re: [RFC] 64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer
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On 24 January 2014 01:26, Christopher Jones
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Overall
>  - I'm fine with changes going into, say, PHP 5.7
>  - I'm fine with the type renaming
>  - I'd prefer ZPP compatibility was kept
>  - I'm fine with dropping support for old SAPIs, but I think warning
>    is needed no matter how unusable they currently are e.g. this means
>    merging the feature to PHP 5.7

This is pretty much how I feel about this too. As a user, it's
something I'd like to have, but as a maintainer or developer on a few
extensions (some PECL, some third party), this isn't something I'm
terribly excited about having on a few months notice for 5.6 — it's
going to be an annoying, subtle change for code that has to support
older versions, as worthwhile as it is in the long term.

I think Nikita's earlier point upthread about it being something that
feels like a major version feature is a potentially a good one. I'm
happy enough with it being in 5.7 if we still don't have any plans for
5++ in 6-12 months, but if we end up starting to work on a 5++
simultaneously with 5.7 (which I could see happening, given recent
threads on Internals), then it may even be better held off for that.

Adam


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