On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
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> On 7 Jul 2014, at 13:19, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I am skeptical on bigint in the engine given what is possible now in
>> gmp. But yes, phpng is also a problem as it creates a total new code
>> base and barely blocks any other improvements. Why? Except that bigint
>> thing, I do not see many people trying to add stuff based on phpng at
>> this point, it is a moving target and will move a lot in the next
>> months as well. But this is a topic for another thread, this one being
>> about the version number and this exact RFC.
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> The problem is that people who want to add stuff for PHP 6 feel they have to add it to phpng,
> because if phpng is to be PHP 6, then it would need to be based off that branch.
Exactly, and for what I see, it is run forward and at some point we
will see a post asking to replace master with phpng and use it as base
for php6. To me this would be a bad thing, but this is the direction
phpng is taking.
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Pierre
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