Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:47437 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 38058 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2010 20:30:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Mar 2010 20:30:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:55637] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 95/60-35531-3FED3AB4 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:30:45 -0500 Received: from localhost (xdebug.org [127.0.0.1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 35351DE484; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:30:40 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:30:40 +0000 (GMT) X-X-Sender: derick@kossu.derickrethans.nl To: "larry@garfieldtech.com" cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <4BA3AC50.9020004@garfieldtech.com> Message-ID: References: <042C5521-4AE9-477A-B182-31D5FFE08207@pooteeweet.org> <201003182220.29144.larry@garfieldtech.com> <4BA3AC50.9020004@garfieldtech.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.4 branch and trunk From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, larry@garfieldtech.com wrote: > 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. Sure you can, there are SVN snapshots and release candidates. We release those so that you *can* test your code! regards, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug