Re: The open letter to Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>

AV>>I can't find any serious reason to apply the pathes into the current AV>>PHP4 and PHP5 versions. PHP5 is in freeze now. Meaning, no changes are done unless they are absolutely critical. The reason is that we want PHP5 to be sufficiently tested and be confident that it is working before releasing it. And this is very hard to do if the code is changing all the time. I understand that you are fully confident that you code would always work. However, these are the common rules for project release (not only for this project, but for any major project out there), and unless your fixes are critical (meaning - fix major bug or crash or provide critically missing feature) they are not going to be in PHP5 before release. Not because we are thinking your code would break - it might, and it might not, nobody can say that for sure - but because no changes of this grade are entered on this stage. After PHP 5.0.0 is released, adding your patches - as well as many other patches of many other developers waiting for the release - would be possible. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.115