Re: PHP5 on 7th July?

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Sara Golemon wrote: > > > would it be possible to simply have PHP5 delayed until 7th July? > > > We could add GIF write support within GD lib, because on the 7th of July > > > the patent is world wide lifted. > > > > I don't want GIF support in ;-) > > > While I appreciate your reasons for not wanting GIF and agree with them on > an academic level, I don't think it makes sense from our user's perspective > to hold back support for something for which the base code already exists > and requires only a small amount of administrative front-end work. Although I don't like GIF, that was not really the reason for saying it. I meant that delaying PHP 5 because of GIF is stupid. > As to release timing, I'd feel uncomfortable "adding" a new bundled libgd > the day of/day before release. I'd sooner release 5.0.0 on the 4th, add GD > on the 8th, and RC 5.0.1 once or twice. It's technically an exception to > feature freeze within a minor version, but it's an exception within the > bundled library only, not within any of the PHP wrapper code. Yeah, it's prolly ok to put it in 5.0.1, as long as that's QA-ed and handled the 'normal' way, like Ilia is doing for 4.3.x. Don't screw up or change our release things for the silly GIF stuff. > > In any event, users have the option of using the GD library directly from > boutell.com at any time from the moment the author releases it. The PHP > release doesn't need to bundle it for it to work. But the GD lib from Boutell misses a lot of our fixes though. Derick