Re: New flame

2008/5/30 Steph Fox <steph@zend.com>: > > Hi all, > > I'd like to set the world on fire before disappearing off for the rest of > the day, so bear with me :) > At this stage, I was going to say "Congratulations, go off and enjoy yourself. You deserve it!". Then I read the rest of the message. Now I realize it wasn't an announcement of a new l'amour. > PHP 5.3 appears (to me at least) ready for release, give or take a bit of > ironing. Win32 mail() doesn't. >The only problem is the one of other-version compatibility, which > really is a PHP 6 issue. We can't (well we can but it doesn't work well) > future-proof our code with any certainty that we're doing so correctly. That > goes for both internal code (where it matters slightly less in that it > doesn't affect users) and userland code (where it matters a lot). > > If you adapt userland code in PHP 5.3 to run under PHP 6, you lose back > compatibility prior to PHP 5.2.1. > > If this changes in PHP 6 after PHP 5.3 is released, ie PHP 6 is made more > BC-friendly at too late a stage, there are likely to be an awful lot of > users complaining about their wasted time re-writing code when they had to > make a choice between FC and BC. > > I therefore see tackling the BC issues in PHP 6 as a priority at this point > for this reason. I know a handful of developers (Tony, Scott, Andrei to name > the main movers at present) are ready to start working on HEAD again once > its direction is settled, and I'm concerned it's all going to come too late > to prevent a minor crisis of confidence. > > So can we focus on 6 for a bit please? Like, make it Unicode-only and iron > out the BC issues arising from that as far as is possible? > > Thanks, > > - Steph > > > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- ----- Richard Quadling Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"