Re: Re: PHP 5.6.0beta2 Released for Testing!

From: Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 16:48:27 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: PHP 5.6.0beta2 Released for Testing!
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Am 2.5.2014 um 18:28 schrieb Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Hannes Magnusson <bjori@php.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Jan Ehrhardt <phpdev@ehrhardt.nl> wrote:
>>>> Ferenc Kovacs in php.qa (Fri, 2 May 2014 12:42:55 +0200):
>>>>>> ext\apcu\apc_bin.c(238) : error C2065: 'IS_CONSTANT_ARRAY' :
>>> undeclared
>>>>>> identifier
>>>>> 
>>>>> Afair this was mentioned in UPGRADING.INTERNALS, if I remember wrong
>>> please
>>>>> open a bugreport.
>>>> 
>>>> Might be that it is mentioned there (did not check yet), but to an
>>>> innocent bystander it looks like a BC break between beta1 and beta2.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  l. Removal of IS_CONSTANT_ARRAY and IS_CONSTANT_INDEX hack
>>> 
>>>  These two #defines disappeared. Instead we have now IS_CONSTANT_AST
>>> which
>>>  covers also the functionality IS_CONSTANT_ARRAY bid and furthermore the
>>>  hack for marking zvals as constant index with IS_CONSTANT_INDEX is now
>>>  superfluous and so removed.
>>>  Please note that IS_CONSTANT_AST now has the same value than
>>>  IS_CONSTANT_ARRAY had.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Could someone be.. like just a tiny littlebit more professional then
>>> to shit over other people work in the upgrading notes?
>>> This is not the place for to show off how much better you are then
>>> everyone else.
>>> 
>>> And why does it have to be renamed anyway? It has the same value. Does
>>> the same thing. It just got renamed to piss over people?
>>> 
>>> -Hannes
>>> 
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>>> 
>> moving the discussion to internals@, CCing Bob, as he is the author of
>> the change.
>> To my understanding this change was made to fix
>> https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66015
>> I was aware that it is a BC break, but I didn't realized that it will
>> affect other extensions before the first report from the wincache dev
>> arrived.
>> Not sure if removing this #defines is really neccessary to fix the bug
>> mentioned above.
>> 
>> --
>> Ferenc Kovács
>> @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
>> 
> 
> from a quick search search on lxr.php.net the following extensions are
> using IS_CONSTANT_ARRAY or IS_CONSTANT_INDEX
> 
>   - PHK
>   - Parse_Tree
>   - automap
>   - bcompiler
>   - hidef
>   - AOP
>   - yaf
>   - APC
>   - ZendOpcache
>   - APCu
>   - vld
>   - WinCache
> 
> and probably a couple of other exts which isn't on lxr.
> whats even more interesting is that ext/opcache still referencing both of
> those, so it isn't even cleaned up from php-src.
> what is the current workflow for opcache these days? I know that they have
> their own repo, and they are merging from there to php-src.git and that
> they are also maintain compatibility with lower versions for installing
> opcache via pecl, so maybe it is normal to have those references?
> 
> personally I think that compatibility with already existing extensions is
> pretty important, because that is a major reason which holds back people
> from upgrading to new php versions early.
> so internal API breaks like that should happen early in the development
> process, have a clear communication and should be always for a good reason.
> 
> -- 
> Ferenc Kovács
> @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu

At the time when doing this change, I had fixed all the bundled extensions.

So, e.g. opcache shouldn't be a problem.

Actually, I made the commit beginning of April, I think that are nearly
three months time to fix the extensions. I doubt that isn't enough…

Bob




Bob






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