Re: Re: Compatibility problems with PHP 5

Hello Christian, Thursday, November 27, 2003, 2:23:16 PM, you wrote: > Derick Rethans wrote: >> No, what I said was correct. As it is very unlikely that we create a new >> PHP 4 minor version we CAN not at a new function as it's impossible to >> modify source that has already been compiled on thousands of machines. > So no more bug fixes either? That's serious stuff and quite interesting > release management. > I'm tempted to bet that there will be another PHP4 release... (-:C > Oh, and just calling it "PHP 4.3.4 patch level xy" doesn't count ;-) > Maybe it could be done as a "missing __clone() method added" bug fix > then ;-) > Hmm.. if you completely abandon the PHP4 branch then maybe I could take > over and do PHP 4.4 on my own :-) He doesn't say that. We are doing a lot of work on the QA front and of course fix bugs and release new versions. But our policy is to introduce newer functionality only in minor versions. And the active RM has no plans for a 4.4 version since that would delay 5 more. -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net