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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:31:31 -0400
Message-ID: <7B11643C-4A65-4C5F-8E45-5BAC1BC546C1@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>
To: PHP Development <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: PHP 5.4 branch and trunk
From: nate.abele@gmail.com (Nate Abele)

> The point is that, for instance, PHP 5.3 was not a trivial upgrade for =
coders or hosters.  Sure it's mostly compatible, and you certainly can =
write code that works from 5.0->5.3 just fine, and if not then you're =
probably doing something wrong... but that's most of the PHP code out =
there right now. :-)  And naturally you can't test your code against 5.3 =
until it's out.

Larry, to mitigate this issue, please refer to the exhaustive list of =
instructions here:

http://twitter.com/nateabele/status/10733251789

PLEASE NOTE: This also applies to user-land applications with test =
suites (and here I'm risking showing my ignorance by blindly assuming =
Drupal does, in fact, have a test suite).

Please see http://snaps.php.net/ and http://qa.php.net/ for more =
information.

Thanks,
- Nate