Re: Re: Hold off 5.4

On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Gustavo Lopes wrote: > On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:05:43 -0000, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > > > On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Davey Shafik wrote: > > > > > The goal then was to essentially take the 5.3 branch, create a 5.4 > > > branch, cherry pick commits to trunk and apply them to the 5.4 > > > branch and end up with a stable build. Unfortunately, subversion > > > merging sucks. > > > > This has nothing to do with any sort of version control sucking. > > Cherry picking is hard! It only works if you get one feature in one > > commit, instead of many several, with other changes in between, > > without many dependices between patches. PHP isn't like that, > > especially with Dmitry's engine changing patches. > > Yes, cherry picking is not as easy as people assume they are, because > many changes depend on each other and trunk has a fair quantity of > these. > > I think trunk should be the starting point for 5.4; as to type > hinting, I'm neutral as to the status quo. Yes, I also think trunk should be 5.4. It's not the most ideal thing though, but something we'll have to live with. It's going to be a lot less of a hassle than cherry picking trunk's features and graft them onto 5.3. > However, this is all orthogonal to this thread, what's important is > that we agree on the formalities proposed so that we can proceed to > these material issues. I don't know. The release process discussion can run at the same time and be ready for 5.5. That even allows us to refine it while we're trying out the current proposal. Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug