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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.2.7RC1 Testing
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
>>>> From now on I will simply stop to read any post from you as long as
>>> there is uppercase words in it. It is annoying, respectless and does
>>> not make your point any better.
>>
>> I make no apologies for formatting text as I see fit. It would have 
>> been very useful if you had simply corrected Ilia's post at the time. 
>> I do not seem to be the only person who was waiting for snaps.php.net 
 >> be fixed? And had I been made aware of there being a different site
 >> than some of the confusion over the last few days would probably have
 >> been avoided
> 
> Well Pierre is not alone and the other day I was about to write 
> something similar. So add me to the list of people that will ignore you 
> if you insist on this formatting. Its just a question of accepting the 
> way people talk to each other on this list. If you absolutely need to 
> highlight, then others have used an underscore in front and at the end 
> of the words they wanted to emphasize, but even that is rarely used. 
> Somehow others seem to get by with just English without having to 
> emphasize words in their sentences. Accept this or accept that your 
> emails will go to /dev/null. Your choice.

Feel free - I've not changed over the years and I still get pigging annoyed :(
 From 2005 ....... my reply to Derick
> Derick Rethans wrote:
>> Yeah, that sounds like a really good idea to postpone PHP 6 for another 3 years. ;-)
> 
> I know you were joking, but DO WE REALLY WANT THREE VERSIONS OF PHP on
> the go ? We need a roadmap to ONE version - don't we?
> 
>>> Having the suggestions collected (either in separate text files in CVS
>>> or in a web-bases system) would be a good idea anyways.
>>
>> I think we shouldn't go overboard with all the suggestions. We do want to ship the Unicode PHP this year - and just focussing on Rasmus' initial list seems the best way to me.
> 
> Apart from unicode, nothing else on the list was something that could
> not be introduced in 5.1 or 5.2. The REAL problem is getting people who
> insist that PHP5 is no good to start switching from PHP4, so that it can
> be 'put to bed' rather than adding new features to that AS WELL ? The
> only time I have a problem with register_globals is where the source is
> PHP4 !
What ever happened to shipping PHP6 in 2005?
Derick was joking about 'delaying PHP6 three years' ..... I gave up trying to 
help with PHP6 in 2007 - one of the reasons I've not done much 'here' in the 
last 18 months other than testing the PHP5 with Firebird releases as they happen.

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