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Subject: PHP 5.1
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)

Hey,

I just heard from Wez that PDO is in very advanced stages now (ready for beta).
I would like to start the PHP 5.1 release process. Due to the lack of 
testing both the new engine VM and PDO have received I would like to start 
with a beta process so that we get feedback.

I know there are still some fixes that need to be applied both in the 
engine and in extensions so I would like to release a beta on March 1st (a 
month from today).
Derick also mentioned that his new very much needed Date 
extension will be ready by that date.

I believe both PDO and Date should be included in the default distro. As 
far as PDO is concerned I think for each DB if it is selected at configure 
time, the relevant PDO extension should also be enabled. So doing 
--with-oci8 should enable both ext/oci8 and ext/pdo_oci. This will give 
users more of a choice, give more exposure to PDO which is one of the most 
important features of 5.1 and of course, it doesn't really cost us very 
much except for having to do some configure hacking.

Comments/Flames/Praises to this list :)

Andi