Re: [PHP-I18N] [I18N] PHP6 - Resuming Work

Clayton,

Please don't commit anything until we have a chance to review.

-Andrei

On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:14 PM, l0t3k wrote:

> hello all,
>  after a round of unfortunate incidents, i'll be ready to resume work 
> on the
> unicode extension. i'm close to getting my  build environment back 
> together,
> so i'd like to get some idea of where things are with other people 
> working
> on the innards of PHP6. i'll start the discussion.:
>
>     As some of you know, i have written an extension which exposes 
> most of
> the interesting classes exported by ICU
> (covering locales, formatting/parsing , calendars, timezones, 
> collation,
> normalization,  regex etc). Having escaped my machine only once, i'd 
> guess
> it is in early alpha shape. It compiled and worked on the pre-public 
> CVS
> release, but it has not been tested (or compiled for that matter) on
> anything other than my machine (Win32/MSVC).
>
> Derick attempted to give it a go, but ended in a sea of compiler errors
> (under gcc, i presume).  i think most errors are due to the mixture of 
> C and
> C++ code. Other intrepid souls are welcome to try.
>
> Over the next few days, i'll make changes to accomodate the PDM 
> revisions.
> One issue Derick raised is that because of the sheer size of ICU, we 
> may
> need to break the extension into more modular parts (each living in 
> PECL
> until consensus is reached on which makes it to core). Because of this 
> and
> the compile issue, i'd rather engage some eyes other than mine before
> attempting a CVS commit.
>
>
> clayton
> aka l0t3k
>
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