On Jun 9, 2005, at 6:51 PM, Andi Gutmans wrote:
Hi,
Finally catching up with all the million comments. Definitely a way
to get distracted from real work :)
I don't want to get distracted from what I consider should be the
main objective and bigger issues than yes to one or another feature.
We should get PDO, new execution engine and some other changes out
to the public.
We need to fold in the Unicode changes into public CVS before we
have a maintenance nightmare. We can't manage more than two PHP 5
branches at once. It'll be unmaintainable and tough.
I'll roll PHP 5.1 Beta 1 tomorrow. Hopefully we will then start
getting some very much needed feedback from the public for HEAD.
After talking to Andrei & Rasmus, I think it becomes clear that we
should aim to RC 5.1 in the beginning of July so that we can close
the 5.0.x branch and merge Unicode into HEAD. There will hopefully
then be a quick development cycle for upgrading a lot of functions
for Unicode support, and in addition we could address some features
like goto, and other improvements which are required. Releasing 5.1
doesn't mean 5.5 or 6.0 (whatever we call the Unicode version)
couldn't be released this year.
I'm sure Andrei would love that :) (so would I, and incidentally my
original name is Andrei too).
It's for the benefit of all to make progress and not slow the
release cycle to a halt, especially for people who are looking
forward to the "major" features. We have some great stuff coming
and it'll go bad if we don't move the major pieces along.
I think this is an excellent idea. All of the features being debated
hotly now are extremely minor compared to good unicode support, and
given the broad effect of that change, getting it into HEAD and thus
into mainstream development usage would be a really good thing.
George
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