Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:30284 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 17010 invoked by uid 1010); 20 Jun 2007 12:40:50 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 16995 invoked from network); 20 Jun 2007 12:40:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Jun 2007 12:40:50 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.94.239.5 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Received: from [82.94.239.5] ([82.94.239.5:39078] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 73/A3-22285-05029764 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:40:50 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.13.7/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l5KCeaa9029984; Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:40:36 +0200 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:40:38 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@kossu.ez.no To: Pierre cc: jani.taskinen@iki.fi, Rasmus Lerdorf , Ilia Alshanetsky , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1181829227.3478.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <6sof73dj69ldpspfc5ukrc58qr9ckbin2b@4ax.com> <4677E7B1.2080305@lerdorf.com> <4677F5FB.1070206@lerdorf.com> <4678252F.2050803@sci.fi> <46783212.4020900@lerdorf.com> <21277473-1502-4F7E-9C3B-BE42C50DD7CB@prohost.org> <467839D0.2020301@lerdorf.com> <46790C60.6020300@sci.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6? From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Pierre wrote: > On 6/20/07, Jani Taskinen wrote: > > What I think Ilia said (between the lines) is that basically we're forking > > PHP. > > > > Perhaps we really need to accept the fact that this has already happened.. > > It started with the CPR for PHP_4_4 branch and same is now continuing with > > the PHP_5_2 branch. If the support for PHP 4 was _officially_ dropped by > > release > > of PHP 5, the adoption of PHP 5 would have been quicker than it has been so > > far. > > You are right, that's one of the only way to "force" the move, the > only one I can imagine at least. > > A realistic way to do it is to say that 5.x will not be supported 2 > years (or so) after the first stable release of php6. That's still > ~5-10 years with a maintained php5.x (ok, 5.0.x was born dead ;). > > (No need to say that php4 support should have been stopped already) End of the year :) Derick