Re: [RFC] Starting 5.3

Hello Marcus, Adding a new branch is a huge pita for people distributing binary extension, including our own Windows build and PECL4WIN sites. So perhaps we should wait with adding a new branch since 5.2 is a really nice release, the php5 that works very well :) I think that adding a Phar to the distribution for 5.2.3 is an excellent idea. I also see no reason to stop adding smaller non-api-breaking features to 5.2.x and wait until we have a more compelling reason (more goodies than those listed in points 2-4) to branch out. Edin Marcus Boerger wrote: > Hello internals, > > i'd like to start 5.3 development from 5.2.2 and have 5.2.* only have > security relevant changes and no new features whatsoever. > > For the biggest changes i'd like to see the following: > 1) Adding PECL/Phar as default extension > 2) Add open_filename debug info to streams > 3) Add object handler get_debug_info > 4) Split E_STRICT into E_STRICT and E_DEPRECATED > > a more complete list can be seen here: > http://oss.backendmedia.com/PhP53 > > Besides 1) all mentioned action points require an API change. The first > point could also be done in 5.2.3. > > As soon as we start with 5.3 development we also need to find a way how > to keep track of unmerged changes in 5.2/5.3. Right now a lot of stuff > only happens in 5.2 and eventually gets MFB'ed. An idea is to provide > an easy way to send commits to bugs.php.net and have them as new category > "merge required". Maybe we can have the commit script create a link for > this. > > comments welcome > - but please think before writing > & only write if you have something to say > > Best regards, > Marcus >