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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Replace the flex-based scanner with an re2c [1]
 based lexer
From: scott@macvicar.net (Scott MacVicar)

Marcus Boerger wrote:
> 
> This sounds like we are going to do the same mistake over and over and over
> again. Who is forcing a hard time line on us? Why are we late in the
> develoment I don't get it at all. We haven't done all steps that were on
> our radar for 5.3. Now that we finally found time to address this we should
> do it. Otherwise the consequence is just that we have to do a 5.4 version
> immediately. What is the reason for that, who is more happy with a 5.3 now?
> Are we a company that makes money with selling upgrades?
> 
> Best regards,
>  Marcus
> 
> 

Agreed,

Putting something off for no good reason is going to cause the task to 
lose momentum. There are three of us more than willing to look at any 
issues that come up post-merge, at the moment it is complete sans the 
zend multibyte code.

Scott