-- Simon Walter <[email protected]> wrote (on Tuesday, 19 April 2011, 10:25 AM +0900): > On 18/04/2011 23:04, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > -- Simon Walter<[email protected]> wrote > > (on Monday, 18 April 2011, 03:27 PM +0900): > > > After discussing a bit about Zend Server, I'm particularly > > > interested in what will happen to the product after the release of > > > PHP6. Perhaps that is so far off, that there is no use thinking > > > about it. > > PHP6 in its original incarnation (refactoring PHP to have native Unicode > > support) is currently dead. Currently planned is a PHP 5.<Next> (which > > could be either 5.4 or 6.0). I know the Zend Server team has been quick > > to produce new versions that adopt new minor versions of PHP (they had a > > 5.3 version available very quickly following, if not in parallel to, the > > official 5.3.0 release); I suspect this will be true whatever the next > > minor or major version of PHP might be. > > Interesting to know about scrapping of PHP6. I hope Unicode support > will make it into a future PHP version.
The approach that was being used simply required too much work and changing too much code to make it feasible; a large amount of code was done initially, but it took years to move the conversion even a few more percentage points towards completion. Basically, Rasmus and some of the other core developers at a certain point recognized it would never be complete with that approach, and scrapped it until somebody comes up with a better idea. This is allowing new features to finally creep into the language at a faster pace, which benefits all of us in the end -- though I, too, would like to see full Unicode support some day. -- 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 -- List: [email protected] Info: http://framework.zend.com/archives Unsubscribe: [email protected]
