Right now we keep the main development on the truck and only branch out the
releases. Ideally that's how we should keep doing it, but realistically the
timeline for 5.0 is in the distant future, so I'd say let's make a new CVS
tree for it -- call it php5.
At 07:24 PM 7/7/01 +0300, Andi Gutmans wrote:
>Resending as we only got one answer...
>
>Andi
>
>>Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 00:53:47 +0300
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],"Brian Moon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> "php developers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>From: Andi Gutmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] php 4.1 or php 5.0
>>
>>I think both for Zend 2 and for the cleanup version of PHP (if they
>>happen at the same time or not) it is important to come up with how to do
>>the development. We can either work in a branch or create a new CVS tree.
>>They both have their pros & cons, but especially for the PHP CVS which is
>>a moving target it's going to be hard to make a cleanup and keep the
>>patches in sync with the "being cleaned" version. It'll be easier for
>>Zend because it is very stable and doesn't change very much.
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Andi
>>
>>At 05:27 PM 7/4/2001 +0100, Phil Driscoll wrote:
>>>On Wednesday 04 July 2001 17:12, Brian Moon wrote:
>>> > FWIW, I am +1 on PHP5. There are a lot of things in the language
>>> that need
>>> > to be cleaned up. People here more familiar with other closed languages
>>> > have gotten confused about things like case, underscores, haystack and
>>> > needle, the way some array functions return an array and some modify the
>>> > passed array. There is just a lot of stuff like that.
>>>
>>>
>>>I'm all for making the radical changes at 5.0, its just that it seems like
>>>Zeev is keen on a shortish timeframe for the new engine, whereas I suspect
>>>that tidying up the language will take quite a bit longer.
>>>
>>>FWIW my vote is for us to make a concerted start on tidying the language
>>>with
>>>a realistic time frame of <guess> 1 year. If the new Zend engine is going to
>>>be ready much sooner than that, and it will only affect OO stuff and the
>>>business of accessing individual characters in strings, then that change
>>>should be to 4.1. If the engine is going to take a year, then we'll have a
>>>big pile of stuff to launch as 5.0
>>>
>>>Cheers
>>>--
>>>Phil Driscoll
>>>
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