Not planned Offer download without polyfills

[Kirby]

XenForo does ship with a bunch of Polyfills that are not needed for a modern PHP version with the required extensions (sodium, intl, iconv, ctype. mbstring).

While it is kinda trivial to remove those from the autoloader (and does not cause much overhead anyway), it would be nice to have an option to download XenForo packages without those polyfills included.

 

[Chris D]

I've made some comments here and we have mitigated most of this for the next release:

Fixed - Useless polyfills being loaded

XenForo 2.2 does include Symfony polyfills polyfill-php56 and polyfill-php70, as well as paragonie/random_compat. All those do get loaded by Composer. This seems to be useless overhead as XenForo 2.2 does require PHP 7.0 and those polyfills will do nothing.

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Polyfills may occasionally still be included, but I don't think we'll be taking any special steps to offer different download packages with those files excluded.