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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:00:48 +0200
Cc: "php-dev List" <internals@lists.php.net>,
 "Pierre Joye" <pierre.php@gmail.com>,
 "Dmitry Stogov" <dmitry@php.net>,
 "Christian Seiler" <chris_se@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RC2 and integer/float handling in 5.3
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)

Hi,

@Matt: thx for getting back to me on this.

In general all the technical details are way over my head. What  
worries me is that we are going back and forth with these changes. It  
seems there is a pretty large "trail and error" part to these changes.  
So for the most part at this stage I do not care all that much about  
fixing things that were broken in 5.2 and when in doubt I would rather  
stick with behavior form 5.2, than continue messing around with a  
better approach for 5.3. At this stage the best service we can do our  
users is to release 5.3 ASAP.

So please everybody working on these changes, keep the above in mind.  
As soon as you can give me some more details on when all of this will  
be completed I would appreciate it, at which stage I will make a  
release plan for RC2.

I know that there are still some issues on the windows side. I am  
waiting for details on that, but do note that RC2 will not wait for  
windows todo items that are not spelled out at this point. even then  
it will be decided on a case by case basis .. again .. if something  
was broken in 5.2 and will remain broken in 5.3 .. so be it .. we have  
enough improvements for a couple of minor releases at this point, that  
are waiting to be released with 5.3.

Aside from this nobody raised their hands, so I will not wait for any  
thing else. I would also appreciate it if people would refrain from  
committing anything but clear bug fixes at this point. Anything with  
any level of a BC break should be brought to the list first. Keep in  
mind that HEAD is for development.

regards,
Lukas