Re: Plan regarding fd patch...rc4

At 17:13 20/05/2003, Edin Kadribasic wrote:

On 20 May 2003, Sterling Hughes wrote: I just want to note I'm with Zeev here too. PHP 4.3.X are minor bugfix releases. This is pretty major, and imho too big a risk to take. Why don't we, as Zeev proposed, provide a patch for people who use Solaris on php.net? I disagree with that. PHP 4.3.x is going to be the latest released version of PHP for quite some time to come so it is my opinion that we have to be more flexible and allow not-so-minor changes. Otherwise you need to tell people that they can only expect improvements in the upcoming (and quite experimental) version of PHP that is due to be released in 6 to 12 months.

I think that at the very least we should delay it to 4.3.3, or even push out a 4.4.0 release just for that, with fairly clear warnings. A dot-zero release like 4.4.0 will at least signal to people that it may introduce new bugs. The important part is that it shouldn't be in 4.3.2. Reasoning: [1] 4.3.0 was a pretty bad release, with lots of newly introduced bugs. [2] 4.3.2 has great potential for being a stable version of 4.3.0. [3] The fd patch endangers this. Since its introduction, at least 3 crash bugs have been found. It's not unrealistic that there'd be others. At the very least we should push out a version that's safe for everyone to upgrade to, a stable 4.3 version. If we decide to release a further version that includes this patch (which I personally think is a bad idea) so be it, but it should come with a clear "You don't need to upgrade unless you're experiencing this problem" message. This is something we can't say about 4.3.2. Zeev