Re: PHP 5.3.9 and is_a changes

2011/10/22 Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de>: >> > There is also a lot to be said for going with what is known to be stable for >> > an LTS release. >> Please do not begin with this discussion again. It is confusing for >> the readers and totally unrelated. There is no LTS in the release >> process RFC but every release has a fixed lifetime. > This discussion is about Ubuntu LTS. So 5.4 might be a valid choice for > them. If we can get a 5.4 they're reasonably comfortable with out in time, I'd argue very strongly for its inclusion. We've already got 5.4 in beta. I don't think it's crazy to think we'd have a 5.4.0 in plenty of time to let them do plenty of testing. We're talking about locking a major vendor into a major version for -five- years, not Ubuntu's usual three. 5.4 will give them a head start versus what would otherwise be starting already out of date - by the time Ubuntu 12.04 is officially released, they'd be behind with 5.3. My understanding of LTS is not that it's a total freeze, but that they support it for bug fix updates and such. So we could expect 5.4.x releases to get in (or be backported/cherry-picked) if they had important fixes, as long as we don't have another is_a() snafu. -- Gwynne