Re: PHP 6

From: Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:33:46 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP 6
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Hi,

On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 11:57 -0500, Derick Rethans wrote:
> So I would suggest the following things to do:
> 
> - get rid of Jani's play branch
> - move trunk to branches/FIRST_UNICODE_IDEA
> - put 5.2 in security fix only mode
> - pht 5.3 in bug fix only mode
> - start adding new features (traits, Ilia's scalar typehint patch, 
>   output buffering things) to the new trunk cloned from 5.3.
> - in the meanwhile, start working on patching in back Unicode support, 
>   but in small steps. Exactly which things, and how we'd have to find 
>   out. But I do think it needs to be a *core* language feature, and not 
>   simply solved by extensions. We also need to make sure everybody 
>   understands that Unicode isn't just about encodings, or charsets and 
>   that thre are differences between that. Education is going to be 
>   important (and adding Unicode back in small bits would certainly help 
>   there).

+1

johannes



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