Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:49243 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 25344 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2010 09:15:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Aug 2010 09:15:33 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 213.123.26.186 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.123.26.186 c2beaomr08.btconnect.com Received: from [213.123.26.186] ([213.123.26.186:17217] helo=c2beaomr08.btconnect.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 9C/C1-14965-3B8116C4 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:15:32 -0400 Received: from [10.0.0.4] (host81-138-11-136.in-addr.btopenworld.com [81.138.11.136]) by c2beaomr08.btconnect.com with ESMTP id FEP69863; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:15:27 +0100 (BST) X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=Neutral-1, source=Queried, refid=0001.0A0B0302.4C6118AF.0116, actions=tag Message-ID: <4C6118AE.3070504@lsces.co.uk> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:15:26 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100506 SUSE/2.0.5-1.2 SeaMonkey/2.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PHP internals References: <1281429940.969.2093.camel@guybrush> <4C611481.7010105@php.net> In-Reply-To: <4C611481.7010105@php.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=c2beaomr08.btconnect.com X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A0B0207.4C6118B0.03B1,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2009-07-20 21:54:04, dmn=5.7.1/2009-08-27, mode=single engine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 Alpha? From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) Sebastian Bergmann wrote: >> So we'd always have three branches, while two only receive bug fixes, >> > plus one branch for the next milestone. > +1 And currently 5.2.x is still the preferred base as there is still a lot of third party stuff that has to make the transition to 5.3.x ... Pushing new stuff through is all very well, but some core code bases are 15 years old and while they can remain on older versions of PHP, an LTS build would be very helpful ... one can target that for upgrading old code and then move forward if needed. Heck some projects have only just closed down PHP4 support on their trunk ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php