Re: PHP 6

On 03/13/2010 08:57 AM, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > >> So I think Lukas and others are right, let's move the PHP 6 trunk to a >> branch since we are still going to need a bunch of code from it and >> move development to trunk and start exploring lighter and more >> approachable ways to attack Unicode. We have a few already. >> Enhanced mbstring and ext/intl. Let's see some good ideas around that >> and work on those in trunk. Other features necessarily need to play >> along with these in the same branch. I refuse to go down the path of >> a 5.4 branch and a separate Unicode branch again. >> >> The main focus here needs to be to get everyone working in the same >> branch. > > I am also in favour for getting back to one branch for new development. > And that "branch" should be trunk. However, I am a little bit reluctant > to just "kill" all Unicode support. I don't think we can get around the > fact that propr Unicode support is going to be even more important in > the future than it already is today. However, we can also not get around > the fact that the current state of "Unicode-in-PHP" isn't the most ideal > situation. You know I am not in favour of "killing" Unicode. We can't kill Unicode. We live in a Unicode world, like it or not. We just need to reset the effort and do it in smaller steps. So, setting aside the current trunk in a branch and slowly bringing the good bits and pieces from it into the development branch in a way that doesn't alienate everyone should be the goal here. > - get rid of Jani's play branch I don't think Jani has messed up anything in that branch yet, so that could be the new trunk. It's just cloned from 5.3 exactly like you are proposing. > As I now have plenty of time to work on things, I'd be happy to act as > RM, and wouldn't mind working on roadmaps and sorting out what good bits > we have/had, and which things we don't want to port back into the new > trunk. Depending on how things go, this could become 5.4 or 6 or > something else. Cool, theoretically I have plenty of time right now as well, although in practice that doesn't seem to be the case. -Rasmus