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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:42:55 +0100
To: "Stanislav Malyshev" <stas@zend.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Replace the flex-based scanner with an re2c [1] based lexer
From: pierre.php@gmail.com ("Pierre Joye")

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <stas@zend.com> wrote:

>  Just curious who you were answering to... Anyway, to be clear:
>  1. PHP 6 is major version with its major feature being Unicode support.
>  2. PHP 5.x is same-major branch, where you are not expected to have to
>  change your system in order to upgrade.
>  3. We do not expect people to take PHP 6 and have absolutely everything
>  work instantly from PHP 5. We try to minimize upgrade path, but major
>  version upgrades can take some adjustments.
>  4. We expect people to upgrade from 5.2.x to 5.3.x without changing
>  their systems.
>
>  Is it clearer why I think PHP 5.x and 6 are different and why I think
>  ICU dependency in the 5.3 core might be a problem?

It is clearer but it is not a problem. New features may introduce new
dependencies. Having a dependency on libicu while we introduce intl
and other features related to unicode or i18n. I would agree if we
were talking about 5.2.x.

-- 
Pierre
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