On 11.03.2010, at 18:22, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> Ah, Jani went a little crazy today in his typical style to force a
> decision. The real decision is not whether to have a version 5.4 or
> not, it is all about solving the Unicode problem. The current effort
> has obviously stalled. We need to figure out how to get development
> back on track in a way that people can get on board. We knew the
> Unicode effort was hugely ambitious the way we approached it. There are
> other ways.
>
> So I think Lukas and others are right, let's move the PHP 6 trunk to a
> branch since we are still going to need a bunch of code from it and move
> development to trunk and start exploring lighter and more approachable
> ways to attack Unicode. We have a few already. Enhanced mbstring and
> ext/intl. Let's see some good ideas around that and work on those in
> trunk. Other features necessarily need to play along with these in the
> same branch. I refuse to go down the path of a 5.4 branch and a
> separate Unicode branch again.
>
> The main focus here needs to be to get everyone working in the same branch.
+1 for moving trunk to a branch and moving 5.3 to trunk.
regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org