At 11:00 23/08/2005, Derick Rethans wrote:
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> At 01:23 23/08/2005, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> >Greg Beaver wrote:
> > > I just synced php-src/pear (PHP_5_0/PHP_5_1/PHP_4_4) with pear-core
> > > (PEAR_1_3). May god bring the day when this is no longer necessary
> > > sooner rather than later.
> >
> >We'll get there. But we can't kill the 5.0 tree until we have a 5.1
> >release.
>
> I don't see the 5.0 (or 4.4) trees dying anytime in the foreseeable future.
> May God bring the day when we no longer have to support security issues /
> major bugs in production releases :)
We should definitely get rid of the 5.0 branch when we release 5.1.0, as
having to deal with 4 branches is a little bit too much.
Umm, that's not exactly an option, not before 5.1 proves itself stable (as
far as architecture goes - the changes between 5.0 and 5.1 are as
substantial as the changes between 4.x and 5.0 were). PHP 5.0 is deployed
on roughly 5% of the userbase, including most of the new users in the last
year. We definitely can't get rid of the branch anytime soon (nor do I see
any motivation to do it ever), and we'll have to maintain it with security
fixes for some time.
We'll have to maintain 4.x security fixes for as long as necessary, which
is probably going to be *long*.
Zeev
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