On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Lester Caine <[email protected]> wrote:
> Pierre Joye wrote:
>>
>> In any case, a script to fetch it from the curl site should be
>> provided, in the source and binaries releases. This script should be
>> documented in the PHP manual and in the upgrading guide (same for this
>> RFC in general).
>
>
> At the risk of being shouted at as off topic ...
If you know it is off topic (just like the constant rants about
notices and other "issues" you run into with legacy codes), why do you
post it in the 1st place?
That being said, I think we all know your views on these topics.
> This is not the only
> configuration data that may need managing externally to PHP builds. The tz
> data is similarly updated outside the PHP build cycles. People are hitting
> time being wrong more than having a problem with an out of date CA file ...
> and windows versions of the data tend to lag behind.
> Security is not the
> only thing that is reliant nowadays on third party data?
We bundle the TZ data and it is used on all supported platforms. So
no, no platform lags behind other. Some distributions may patch the
date extension to use the system TZ but then it is none of our
business.
Cheers,
--
Pierre
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