Re: 4.2.3

It's not a matter of what we call it - I thought it would make sense to release a new version based on the 4.2 branch, because 4.3 has TONS of new features and is thus very likely to introduce new inconsistencies and bugs. As people have said here several times in the last few weeks, most users will be unlikely to install 4.3.0 anyway, until they either hear it's ok, or see it mature with a few bugfix releases. Just a thought. Zeev At 18:33 17/08/2002, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

Regardless of what we call it, we need to light a fire under people to get a new release out. The fixes are piling up in CVS. Stig, could you give us a status report? Do you still have time to push this release? -R On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Zeev Suraski wrote: Ok then, I retract my suggestion to release 4.2.3. Zeev At 17:59 17/08/2002, Dan Kalowsky wrote:

I disagree that it should go out as is, very strongly at that too. Some fixes not in the 4.2 branches: - ODBC no longer crashes on Windows upon unloading - while not fully tested, ext/java now works for 1.4 JDK's - various memory leak fixes provied by Ilia (pack being one of them) - a few misc fixes for Win32 platforms - nsapi build fix which allows it to build and reported run again (although I still think we need to decide if we can kill this support) - numerous domxml bug fixes have been added as well. - QTDOM fix to allow it to compile again and run again This is one yet to be made, but: - a potential fix to have 'make install' work on AIX machines again finally. These are just bug fixes. I don't want to see new functionality added to PHP for a potential 4.2.3, but I do want to see a LOT of these bugs squished. There is a fix, why go and release another version of PHP with known and non-fixed bugs in it? It still doesn't seem to compile and work on 64-bit arch's. But yet again, there are numerous reasons why we should move to release PHP 4.3. The biggest of which in my book is, it supports OSX! While possibly a minor issue to many of the users on this list, it's becoming a more significant issue, especially with Jaguar/10.2 being released in a few days. There have been numerous fixes to all the code bases in an effort to get support for OSX implemented into them (ext/java still being a bastard). On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Zeev Suraski wrote:

I think it makes good sense to release 4.2.3 as-is (after a short

QA cycle,

that will ensure we didn't introduce any new bugs). If 4.2.3 becomes a larger project, with more pre-requisites, I don't see it happening

("if it

will not be simple, it will simply not be"). The last time around 4.2.3 died was exactly due to this issue. Zeev At 16:47 17/08/2002, Dan Kalowsky wrote:

I have to disagree, a LOT of bug fixes have gone in. Honest I can run through the list of things I think should be

done, and a

list of things that I think should be back ported. None of it is new functionality, all of it is fixes to bugs. And I still think the Tru64/AIX issues will need to be solved as well. On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Zeev Suraski wrote:

I'd really like to avoid waiting this time, though (the enemy of

good is

better...). Even if we release 4.2.3 as it is in the branch,

without any

further fixes, it's significantly better than 4.2.2. Translating this into action - my personal preference is to release

the RC

as early as tomorrow. Zeev At 16:20 17/08/2002, Dan Kalowsky wrote:

Hrm, well a lot of the fixes I've been doing have only gone to

head

because the belief of no 4.2.3. There are still a few outstanding bugs I'd like to see fixed

before things

we RC. Sfox and I (mostly her though) have been looking at

the dbm_*

functionality on Windows. We're questioning if it ever worked

at all.

I can run through a list if there is a desire to see one. On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Zeev Suraski wrote:

I'd like to raise the option of releasing 4.2.3 again. I

believe

that it

would be quite a while before 4.3.0 is out, and there are

quite a

few fixes

in the 4.2 branch that should make the userbase as soon as

possible,

especially the Windows userbase. I think that releasing 4.2.3 can be done within approximately

one week,

with one RC, barring unexpected surprises. Opinions? Zeev

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Dan Kalowsky                    "A little less conversation,

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dank-nom@aps-deadmime.org       - "A Little Less Conversation",
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Dan Kalowsky                    "A little less conversation,

http://www.deadmime.org/~dank a little more action."

dank-nom@aps-deadmime.org       - "A Little Less Conversation",
kalowsky@php.net                        Elvis Presley

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Dan Kalowsky                    "A little less conversation,

http://www.deadmime.org/~dank a little more action."

dank-nom@aps-deadmime.org       - "A Little Less Conversation",
kalowsky@php.net                        Elvis Presley

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