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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:25:05 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Hold off 5.4
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jani Taskinen [mailto:jani.taskinen@iki.fi]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 12:25 AM
>> To: davey@php.net
>> Cc: PHP Internals
>> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Hold off 5.4
>>
>> Who says it has to be 5.4? People seem to be a bit fixated on the version there.
>> Major BC breaks just means the version released from trunk is 6.0. And it's just
>> a number. Big number, but still just a number.
>>
>> Merging (by and or by magic :) features into branch created from 5.3 just
>> sounds like plane crash waiting to happen..
>
> I agree and I don't think we're in as bad shape although there's some cleaning up that needs to be done.

It is not bad, it is only painful. I did the merges for 5.3.0-3 and I
can tell you that SVN is simply broken for such things. I do it with
git for many other projects and I never had real issues.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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