Re: Hold off 5.4
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:58:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Hold off 5.4 | ||
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On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
> > > We also have no plan about what will or will not be 5.4. This looks
> > > familiar, this is exactly how we begun 5.3 and it tooks literally
> > > years to be released. There is also actually no agreement to begin
> > > with 5.4 now.
> >
> > Yes, but instead of defining "what is PHP 5.4", why not just go with
> > what we have? Everything that's not in thre is for PHP-next-next again.
> >
>
> backward compatibility™
> we had a few nice things in the PHP6 branch, which got merged into the
> trunk, before choosing the version number for the trunk.
Do you have a list?
> > Stalling every time doesn't get us anywhere. IMO we should just go with
> > it.
>
> > I am absolutely against stalling again!
>
> I am too, but I think that we should carefully cherrypick, what to release
> with 5.4 from the current trunk.
Cherry pick? Do you have any idea how complicated that is?
Derick