Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:49272 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 34846 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2010 18:25:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Aug 2010 18:25:04 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=php@hristov.com; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=php@hristov.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain hristov.com from 85.92.87.36 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: php@hristov.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 85.92.87.36 iko.gotobg.net Linux 2.6 Received: from [85.92.87.36] ([85.92.87.36:42375] helo=iko.gotobg.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 74/DD-61991-D79916C4 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:25:02 -0400 Received: from [87.121.162.23] (port=47478 helo=[192.168.1.100]) by iko.gotobg.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OitVE-0001z6-Al; Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:24:44 +0300 Message-ID: <4C61996F.1090807@hristov.com> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:24:47 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100411) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ferenc Kovacs CC: =?UTF-8?B?Sm9oYW5uZXMgU2NobMO8dGVy?= , Internals References: <1281429940.969.2093.camel@guybrush> <255073A3-5250-4962-875A-7B2E69E40A48@pooteeweet.org> <1281450642.969.2575.camel@guybrush> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - iko.gotobg.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.php.net X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - hristov.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.4 Alpha? From: php@hristov.com (Andrey Hristov) Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > 2010/8/10 Johannes Schlüter > >> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 16:20 +0200, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: >>> Is LTS really something we need to provide? Seems to me like this is >>> something the linux vendors take care of for the most part. Of course >>> this leaves windows, OSX (and maybe some others). >> Well, I don't see it as loooooooooooooooooooooooooong term support, but >> rather as way to enable quick feature cycles, so that feature releases >> can move faster than anybody can upgrade to them (ok, that's a bit too >> fast the, but hope you get the point), while new features can get in >> production sooner, where wanted. >> >> We could also use the names "feature preview release" and "stable >> release"(=lts) ... which would bring us close to MySQL's model and their >> confusing version numbering (MySQL 5.1 is the stable there, then MySQL >> 5.4 was announced as preview, now MySQL 5.5 is the current preview >> release, neither 5.4 nor 5.5 are "stable", "GA", though) >> >> johanne >> >> >> > they started to use milestone release-s. > http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-release-model.html > > > Tyrael > Which are even more confusing. But someone had to spend hours paid time to think this out. Andrey