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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:28:15 -0500
To: Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net>
Sender: Ilia Alshanetsky <iliaal@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Binary strings from 6 in 5.2?
From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky)


On 14-Nov-06, at 4:08 PM, Sara Golemon wrote:

> I disagree.  We're not making 5.2 a placeholder, we're making it a  
> transitional version.

It is not a transitional version, what gave you this idea? It is a  
standalone version, if we decide to make a transitional version we  
should create 5.9 branch or similar and then feel free to stuff it  
full of php6 place holders to your heart's content.

>   A means of softening the impact of migrating applications to take  
> advantage of PHP6 which introduces a lot of interversion  
> compatability issues.

Just because behavior of something had changed in php6 does not mean  
it should change in php5 as well. It is the job of new releases to be  
backwards compatible, not old releases to be forward compatible.

> How many applications out there aren't taking advantage of things  
> like property visibility in PHP5 because they want to remain  
> compatable with the myriad PHP4 installations?  How much are  
> compromises like that slowing PHP5 adoption?

People who need this functionality migrate to PHP5, those can live  
without and are perfectly happy with PHP 4 continue using that...

Ilia Alshanetsky