Re: [RFC] Starting 5.3

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Lester Caine wrote: > Andi Gutmans wrote: > > I see no value in making compatibility breaks in 5.x and not in the next > > major version. As it is we drive a lot of our users crazy. We already > > agreed this is a 6.x thing. > > > IMHO one good reason to start a new branch for 5.x would be the ability to > > > get rid off register_globals and magic_quotes in the 5 series without > > > having to wait for PHP6 to come around. > > It seems to me that there are even more people around with their own agendas > today. The PHP6 'plan' is looking good, but do we have an ETA? Personally I've > stopped bothering with all the changes to PHP5 and 5.1.6 is working nicely for > me, so my next step WOULD be PHP6. For those of us who have already 'dropped' > register_globals and magic_quotes in our code, forcing people who have not yet > had time to make the move seems a little heavy handed. PHP6 will need a major > porting exercise, so keep it until then. > > As for phar? It sounds a little like PDO. No one has time to work on the > Firebird PDO driver because we still need the main driver to provide the > functions PDO does not support. Proper discussion and development of elements > that are planned to become main stream would be nice, and not the apparently > current method of 'I'm doing this in the next release because I want it!' Do > we need phar? Is it fully operational on all platforms? How will the currently > registered dependencies be addressed? IF it goes into the main distribution > presumably the installers are going to be extended to support it's server > requirements. Is that appropriate 'mid cycle'? > > It WOULD be nice to spend some time inside the PHP code base, but at present > all spare time seems to be spent monitoring and testing all the changes to the > releases and always playing catch up. > > PHP6 is the next release - PHP5 should now be tied down and put on the same > basis as PHP4 before we end up with even more private initiatives creating > even more mayhem :( > If people want these changes why aren't they working to get PHP6 out? Amen, besides that you should use php 5.2 and not 5.1.6 ;-) regards, Derick