Re: PHP 5 Beta 3

Hello Andi, Wednesday, November 12, 2003, 8:12:33 AM, you wrote: > Guys (n' Girls), > I think there was a lot of good and positive talk in the past few emails. > Let me summarize: > a) There are still people who have to fix some of their extension and are > actually working on them. These fixes should definitely be in PHP 5 and the RC. > b) There are people who are working on new or major rewrites of their > extensions such as Shane and Marcus, who acknowledge that when they are > done, their extensions will be released. I understand from Marcus that he's > fine to have PDO in 5.0.0 or 5.0.1 whatever is relevant. As PDO is > something many are waiting for, no matter when it is released as stable, > people will start using it. > c) There are bastard extensions such as Java and Corba (I thought that Java > was fixed by Wez) and no one is touching them. I believe that no release of > PHP can wait indefinitely for someone to take ownership and fix such > extensions. We will either need to remove them or pray someone picks them > up quickly (although I still think Java is supposed to work). In any case, > we are talking about two very non mainstream extensions here. It's not as > if the Java one is a very feasible extension to use in production > environments because it's slooooooowwww and heavy. > d) If you're an extension maintainer or just a good guy, please take a look > at the bug reports. > So I suggest the following, let's kick ourselves in the tush, aim for Beta > 3 on the 30th of November, and hopefully after that we can do a feature > freeze and go into bug fixing only mode. We can re-evaluate this date as we > get closer in case people are really having a hard time getting their stuff > done. But we can't wait for people who just don't have time in the next few > months. That doesn't make sense. > How's that? :) Sounds good to me :-) -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net