Re: 5.3 status

On 08/09/2012 11:31 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >> On 08/09/2012 11:10 AM, Levi Morrison wrote: >>> >On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Rob >>> Richards<rrichards@cdatazone.org> wrote: >>>> >>Whats the status of 5.3? I have some changes that need to get into >>>> a couple >>>> >>of the xml based extensions in order for them to work with the >>>> next libxml2 >>>> >>release next month. Should I be putting these into 5.3 as well? >>>> >> >>>> >>Rob >>> > >>> >By no means am I an official representative, but I'd like to see them >>> >NOT put into the 5.3 series. Security fixes I can understand, but we >>> >WANT people to upgrade. If we keep developing 5.3 then what's the >>> >point of 5.4 and 5.5? >> Until we EOL 5.3 we should make sure it builds against current versions >> of common things like libxml2. We also don't have APC ready for all the >> new features in 5.4, so it isn't viable to upgrade to it yet for many >> sites. > > Not just APC ... It would be useful to document all the extensions that > are still only available in PHP5.3 ( or earlier )... > > There seems to be a number of reasons ISP's are giving for not offering > PHP5.4 yet but getting a definitive answer seems impossible. There is no such answer. When we find an extension that hasn't been fixed for 5.4 yet, we fix it. Outside of APC which is on a completely different level, modifying extensions to work with 5.4 is trivial. -Rasmus