Re: Re: PHP 5.5 or 6.0

From: Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:16:00 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: PHP 5.5 or 6.0
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On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 13:02:47 +0200 (CEST)
Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:47:50 +0200 (CEST)
> > derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote:
> > > 
> > > > But I have some about what we will do in php 5.x (without
> > > > unicode, namespace), and 6.0.
> > > > 
> > > > I like to see once that we clearly and loudly define what we
> > > > want in or not. So I may waste less time than before.
> > > 
> > > I see it as:
> > > 4.4 - no new features, no new additions. Just bugfixes.
> > > 5.1 - no new major features, just smaller additions.
> > > 6.0 - brand new experimental stuff.
> > 
> > That sounds basically good to me.
> > 
> > My small thoughts:
> > 
> > 5.1.x - bug fixes _only_
> > 5.x   - small additions (in my case, gd updates and merge,
> >         xmlwriter)
> 
> I don't think we should be going with another 5.x release as
> we've plenty of stuff to do for 6.0, gd updates/merges should go
> to 5.1.x too.

I'm not sure that a merge fits in 5.1.x, the amount of changes are
relatively big and are far away from bug fixes.

> If we want to include xmlwriter at all in the
> default distribution is another discussion. (So that should go to
> another thread IMO).

The discussion is already done and we agreed. It did not make it in
5.1 for various reasons. I only stated two of my todos here.

Regards,

--Pierre


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