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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Hold off 5.4
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

On 11/26/10 12:58 PM, Zeev Suraski wrote:
>> Only that it has no technical or features-
>> wise reasons to do so
> 
> Substantial engine level improvements and a couple of new language level features (it's pushing it a bit, I agree, but not that much)

I think the next major version should be used to drop a bunch of
deprecated features and to clean up some things.  That's going to take a
bit of time to figure out and agree on which means traits and the
performance improvements are going to sit around unused for longer than
if we get an interim version out there quicker.

-Rasmus