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Subject: What is the current state of PHP6?
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Apart from the minutes of a meeting back in November *2005* ( was it really 
that long ago ) there seems to be no further definitive documentation on the 
PHP6 roadmap. This is partially why the continual development of PATCHES for 
PHP5 relating to UNICODE is somewhat annoying.

I KEEP asking what is holding up making a beta release of PHP6, and I see 
nothing in the 2005 meeting that is anything more than a restructure and 
recompile using unicode as the base. MOST of the other things are just 
removing things that are now normally switched off anyway. And I mean a BETA 
since the thing has been in alpha for 2 years!

I will ask this question again as I cant find ANYTHING on the php.net site to 
answer it. *IS* PHP6 going to be unicode ONLY internally are is half of the 
problem here that THAT decision still has not been agreed?

I came to PHP a some time before PHP5 was out of candidate stage, and decided 
that there was no point deploying PHP4 since PHP5 was going to be out soon, 
and that PHP4 would be phased out. I have not regretted that decision and have 
managed to navigate the BC hand grenades lobbed since. FINALLY PHP4 is being 
deprecated but still there is no sign of PHP6 over the horizon. So I am not 
surprised that PHP5 is now receiving the same treatment as PHP4 has had for 
years and having facilities that should be core to PHP6 patched back in.

So apart from the 'PHP6 being under heavy development' statements all over the 
place where is the CURRENT status of PHP6 available to look at? There is 
little in the bug list that seems overly problematic, but until there is an 
indication that a release of PHP6 may be on the horizon there is no point 
carrying out any heavy testing with application. Since major parts could 
change before it is released? Some time ago - and I forget how long ago - I 
was running a copy of PHP6 but lack of any real progress has meant that I've 
probably NOT run it for over a year. If I set up a machine again is it worth 
the effort - when may there be something deployable?

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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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