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Subject: Re: PHP 5.1
From: cellog@php.net (Greg Beaver)

Andi Gutmans wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> There have been a lot of questions and discussion regarding status of 
> PHP 5.1.
> In the past few weeks, many have been fixing lots of bugs and PDO seems 
> to have reached a pretty stable state.
> In parallel, a lot of work has been done offline by Andrei, Dmitry and 
> others, to enable Unicode support in PHP and the Zend Engine.
> I believe it is time now to move 5.1 forward at a much faster pace. I'd 
> like to roll a beta of it towards the end of next week such as Thursday 
> (giving a chance for some last minute fixes), and then hopefully RC 
> within a week or two.
> Once we RC PHP 5.1, we should branch it off to PHP_5_1 and make HEAD the 
> Unicode development stream (merging Unicode changes into HEAD).
> 
> Hopefully, by going at this pace, we can have a pretty decent Unicode 
> version of PHP out there within a few months; and have PDO out there 
> almost immediately.
> 
> So I envision:
> End of June - PHP 5.1. Main feature PDO, Improved ZEII and other 
> improvements.
> Q3.2005 - Beta of PHP 5.5/6.0 featuring Unicode support.

Judging by the importance of the 5.5/6.0 release, I think shooting for a 
stable PEAR 1.4.0 in that release would make sense as well.  I will of 
course run this by the other PEAR folks since they probably care a 
little more about the details of this decision :).  It will not be ready 
for a stable release in a week or two, there's still some wrangling over 
features.

One thing to note: I've been working on PHP_Archive with Davey Shafik, 
which will allow PEAR to be distributed in a single file, and this means 
the CVS sync nightmare that is PEAR in the unix build can be eliminated 
by this solution.  This also will not be ready in a week or two, so 
5.5/6.0 it is.

Thanks,
Greg