php3 development

Not to hold anybody back, considering the amount of work invested in the php3 source tree, I think it'd be more than fair to share the situation of the php4 source tree with you all. The php4 source tree branched away from php3 at version 3.0.5. When 3.0.6 went out, Zend was young enough so that it had no real implications on the surrounding php4 code, so patching in the diffs was doable, and I did it. I can tell you now that this isn't the case with 3.0.7, since the implementation of Zend has now changed *a lot* of the wrapper code in PHP. Some of the patches 3.0.7 offers are irrelevant, some would have to be implemented in a different way, and of course, some of them can be applied fairly easily. However, when the php4 source tree goes online (which should happen very soon now, in a limited fashion for major developers in the initial phase), you'd fine a 3.0.6-equivalent version, without all of your patches applied since. IMO, unnecessary changes (i.e., anything except for bug fixes) should probably delayed for a few weeks, so that it can be applied to the new source tree. Applying the changes from 3.0.6 to 3.0.7 will have to be done pretty much by hand, using the good old grey cells a lot instead of the patch utility. By the way, Zend's no longer 'vapourware', you can see it at work at http://netstorm.netvision.net.il:8080/ (which is a mirror of the PHP web site, run by the Zend-enabled version of PHP). Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net