Re: Re: Hold off 5.4

On 11/25/10 9:20 AM, Johannes Schlüter wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 17:11 +0000, Andi Gutmans wrote: >> For what it's worth the changes we've made in the Zend Engine around >> performance and memory use could warrant a major version. Every major >> version of PHP in the past has been driven foremost by major engine >> overhauls. > > Yes, larger changes to the engine changed the major number. But all of > them had a big effect. This is "only" performance. No functionality. 90% > of the users won't notice it. Whereas everbody oticed the change from3 > to 4 or the new object model in 5. Changing the major number has two big > effects: a) marketing b) more fear for doing the upgrade. > > I value b) as the more relevant factor to monitor. Looking through trunk I think we are in pretty good shape. I don't think cherry-picking and branch merging is an issue at this point. A 5.4 with the performance improvements, Traits, minus the type hinting breakage is something we can get out pretty quickly without causing any sort of PHP 6 confusion or breaking existing apps. -Rasmus