Re: A call for help (urgent)
On 17 May 2014, at 11:53, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
> Please, please - vote No on https://wiki.php.net/rfc/size_t_and_int64_next#vote
Everyone, please vote yes. The No side is unlikely to lose, due to the 2/3 majority required. The
Yes side does need a lot of help to win, though. Remember, every no vote requires 2 yes votes to
counteract it.
> We're in an unprecedented situation where almost all of the code
> contributors to the engine are against a patch that is being forced on
> them for no reason, negates months of hard work performed to get us
> phpng, and is somehow enjoying a majority (almost exclusively from
> people who are not engine contributors).
It negates months of hard work performed behind closed doors in secret (phpng), compared to lots of
hard work done in the open (64-bit patch).
> I urge everyone with a right to vote (and only those, as per
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/voting) to vote no, and
> even those who voted
> yes to revert their votes to no.
No way. Let’s use the right types for the job. ‘int’ and ‘long’ should never be used for
sizes of data structures.
It’s not as if 64-bit will kill phpng, it’ll just delay it.
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Andrea Faulds
http://ajf.me/
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