Re: PHP 4.2.0 / PHP 5.0.0-alpha

At 12:39 PM 2/4/2002 +0100, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:

'lo there, what are the plans for the PHP 4.2.0 release? Shouldn't we branch PHP_4_2_0 from HEAD somewhen soon? NEWS already contains about 150 lines of changes since PHP 4.1.1.

I think this is probably a good idea. What about Sascha's build patch?

While we're at it: Andi mentioned some time ago that he'd like to release an alpha version of the Zend Engine 2 bundled with PHP as a tar-ball. Why not use the PHP_4_2_0 branch for that, once it's stable and Q&A'd, and release PHP 4.2.0 and a PHP 5.0.0-alpha based on the same /php4 branch, but with separate versions of the Zend Engine?

My main interest in an alpha is to get more people to play around with the Zend Engine 2 because it needs lots of testing and feedback. However, I really want to get the object overloading stuff into the Zend Engine 2 before this happens (hopefully this week). It pretty much abstracts all object manipulation making it possible to write some cool object overloading extensions. Also, I think it'd be nice to have Andrei's 'is' patch in too. Andi