I'm all for pushing PHP5, but I'm not sure I want to take such an extreme stance. As I mentioned in my blog post, let's start by making some features PHP5 only. Like, let's rewrite the aggregator module with PHP5's simplified XML parser API. That's disruptive too, but at least we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot, rather than
I'm against this, personally - I'd much rather see us standardize around an external library like SimplePie. RSS and Atom parsers are a very very complicated thing, and our parsing issue queue is quite indicative of that. I'd much rather use a library that is /dedicated/ to that task then the parser we currently have. What if, instead of rewriting aggregator, we simply shove it out of core (ala archive.module) and recommend people use something like Feed Parser or SimpleFeed, both of which use and require SimplePie, both require a healthy dose of loving, and both offer a much stronger API? -- Morbus Iff ( my name is legion, for we are many... ) Technical: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ aim: akaMorbus / skype: morbusiff / icq: 2927491 / jabber.org: morbus