Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:47163 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 5015 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2010 16:14:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Mar 2010 16:14:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=christopher.jones@oracle.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=christopher.jones@oracle.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain oracle.com from 141.146.126.233 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: christopher.jones@oracle.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 141.146.126.233 acsinet11.oracle.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [141.146.126.233] ([141.146.126.233:43269] helo=acsinet11.oracle.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 12/86-13686-8486A9B4 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:14:00 -0500 Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by acsinet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o2CGDt7P021013 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:13:57 GMT Received: from acsmt353.oracle.com (acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o2CGDsIA019042; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:13:54 GMT Received: from abhmt001.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 76658351268410368; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:12:48 -0800 Received: from [204.14.155.125] (/204.14.155.125) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:12:48 -0800 Message-ID: <4B9A67FE.6010502@oracle.com> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:12:46 -0800 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lester Caine CC: PHP internals References: <4B9926E8.4080202@lerdorf.com> <4B995F83.1000605@prohost.org> <4B99639B.9030405@oracle.com> <4B996975.9070003@oracle.com> <4B997230.3070801@prohost.org> <1268348090.3959.52.camel@guybrush> <33cd61491003111817q3ff31924l7249a24b7de4d2e9@mail.gmail.com> <4B99D72B.40605@lsces.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4B99D72B.40605@lsces.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsmt353.oracle.com [141.146.40.153] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090201.4B9A6843.0100:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 6 From: christopher.jones@oracle.com (Christopher Jones) Lester Caine wrote: > Currently maintaining the 5.2 branch is essential until such time as all > extensions are available in official builds of PHP on windows! Forcing > projects to change their development platforms simply to support a > blinkered set of rules on PHP is not helpful in moving the project > forward. How many extensions are currently stable in 5.2 on windows but > not supported in 5.3? Private builds of the extensions in 5.3 are > running without problems .... but having to direct users to other sites > is as bad as the current fragmentation in the core code? > Nobody is arguing against maintaining 5.2 for the near-mid future. If you want Windows binaries, start building . . . . Chris -- Email: christopher.jones@oracle.com Tel: +1 650 506 8630 Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/ Free PHP Book: http://tinyurl.com/UGPOM