-- Mario Guenterberg <[email protected]> wrote (on Thursday, 29 July 2010, 04:01 PM +0200): > We're planning a project based on Zend Framework. The project will > be released in Jan/Feb 2011. Now my question: Is it reasonable for us > to use the zf2 code base for this upcoming project? The active > development phase will begin in Sept/Okt 2010.
It's actually somewhat hard to answer that question at this time. We're preparing to release our first development milestone of ZF2, which has accomplished the following: * Stripping of require_once calls * Conversion to namespaces (except for some Zend_Service components) * Updates to the test suite (removed all AllTests classes in favor of using native PHPUnit functionality) * Rewrite of Zend\Session (required so that we could actually test it post-migration; it's been entirely re-architected) Ralph is building a sample app currently so that we have a baseline against which we can do some performance profiling. He's discovered that despite passing tests in individual components, the MVC is not fully functional currently. He is investigating, and hoping to get it working soon. However, this is just the first milestone. Refactoring begins in earnest after this point, so the APIs will be very unstable for a matter of some months at the least. I'm not sure if we'll have a stable release ready in the January/February timeline or not; much of it will be dependent on how much mindshare and time we can get from our own contributor community as we move into a more active ZF2 development phase. Personally, if your project is intended to be production stable for the timeframe you indicate, I'd go with ZF1, and plan a later iteration of the project to migrate to ZF2. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney Project Lead | [email protected] Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/ PGP key: http://framework.zend.com/zf-matthew-pgp-key.asc
