Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6?
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:40:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6? | ||
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Pierre wrote:
> On 6/20/07, Jani Taskinen <jani.taskinen@sci.fi> wrote:
> > What I think Ilia said (between the lines) is that basically we're forking
> > PHP.
> >
> > Perhaps we really need to accept the fact that this has already happened..
> > It started with the CPR for PHP_4_4 branch and same is now continuing with
> > the PHP_5_2 branch. If the support for PHP 4 was _officially_ dropped by
> > release
> > of PHP 5, the adoption of PHP 5 would have been quicker than it has been so
> > far.
>
> You are right, that's one of the only way to "force" the move, the
> only one I can imagine at least.
>
> A realistic way to do it is to say that 5.x will not be supported 2
> years (or so) after the first stable release of php6. That's still
> ~5-10 years with a maintained php5.x (ok, 5.0.x was born dead ;).
>
> (No need to say that php4 support should have been stopped already)
End of the year :)
Derick