Re: Plan regarding fd patch...rc4

I agree with Edin; the fd patch also fixes some problems under windows. George suggested that there is nothing to prevent 4.whatever that includes the fix; what I am suggesting is that there is no need to keep making all these releases within a short time of each other, and maintaining them (don't forget win32 build snapshots/maintenance!) when we are trying to focus on PHP5. *if* we do release further 4.x releases, they will be based on this same code branch anyway; why not hold off 4.3.2 just for a little while longer to QA this patch, then we can forget about PHP4 and move on with PHP5. It's getting quite difficult to maintain both the 4 and 5 code bases (from my perspective anyway) as there are a number of sufficiently new features in PHP5 that makes merging between the branches a painful manual process. Summary: Just QA the patch a little while longer, release it in 4.3.2 and move on. --Wez. On Tue, 20 May 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. > > Edin