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Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 07:54:46 -0700
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Subject: Re: PHP 5.1
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)

Sounds good.

At 10:07 AM 6/4/2005 -0400, Greg Beaver wrote:
>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