Re: [PHP4BETA] forward/back port of modules....

At 11:53 24/04/99 -0400, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >> i do agree in a way - but as i'm still really doing real work on that >> special part i will try to keep it compatibe for now. i will stop doing >> that as soon as we got a stabe php4, that i can rely on. but right now it >> would add another %% to my daily work on php stuff, which is too expensive >> to me.... >> >> so - yes i do agree in the long term - but, for the short term i would >> leave it up to the module maintainer... > >Well, the other issue is that most of the module authors don't even have >access to php4. You can't expect them to sit around twiddling their >thumbs for months. They are obviously going to keep doing stuff and new >modules will appear for php3. True, not quite accurate, and not that much relevant (consider everything I say about this subject prefixed with an implicit IMHO). I don't think any of us is going to make any serious patches to modules that aren't maintained by him, so there's no problem anyway. Plus, I think that we have well over 80% of the module writers inside the beta - the core developers, Thies, Sascha, Markie (sorry if I'm forgetting anybody) - we have all of the major modules covered. Our intention with the closed beta isn't to put some arbitrary limitations on the beta team - if you think that there's a major developer that's missing from the list, we can add him. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il -- PHP 4 Beta