Re: [Zend Engine 2] Fwd: Re: [PHP-DEV] php 4.1 or php 5.0

Right now we keep the main development on the truck and only branch out the releases. Ideally that's how we should keep doing it, but realistically the timeline for 5.0 is in the distant future, so I'd say let's make a new CVS tree for it -- call it php5. At 07:24 PM 7/7/01 +0300, Andi Gutmans wrote:

Resending as we only got one answer... Andi

Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 00:53:47 +0300 To: phil@dialsolutions.co.uk,"Brian Moon" <brianm@dealnews.com>, "php developers" <php-dev@lists.php.net> From: Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] php 4.1 or php 5.0 I think both for Zend 2 and for the cleanup version of PHP (if they happen at the same time or not) it is important to come up with how to do the development. We can either work in a branch or create a new CVS tree. They both have their pros & cons, but especially for the PHP CVS which is a moving target it's going to be hard to make a cleanup and keep the patches in sync with the "being cleaned" version. It'll be easier for Zend because it is very stable and doesn't change very much. Any ideas? Andi At 05:27 PM 7/4/2001 +0100, Phil Driscoll wrote:

On Wednesday 04 July 2001 17:12, Brian Moon wrote:

FWIW, I am +1 on PHP5. There are a lot of things in the language

that need

to be cleaned up. People here more familiar with other closed languages have gotten confused about things like case, underscores, haystack and needle, the way some array functions return an array and some modify the passed array. There is just a lot of stuff like that.

I'm all for making the radical changes at 5.0, its just that it seems like Zeev is keen on a shortish timeframe for the new engine, whereas I suspect that tidying up the language will take quite a bit longer. FWIW my vote is for us to make a concerted start on tidying the language with a realistic time frame of <guess> 1 year. If the new Zend engine is going to be ready much sooner than that, and it will only affect OO stuff and the business of accessing individual characters in strings, then that change should be to 4.1. If the engine is going to take a year, then we'll have a big pile of stuff to launch as 5.0 Cheers -- Phil Driscoll -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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