Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:5770 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 49826 invoked by uid 1010); 27 Nov 2003 13:30:00 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 49787 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2003 13:30:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO shiva.mind.de) (212.42.230.204) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 27 Nov 2003 13:30:00 -0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] (p508EB6DD.dip.t-dialin.net [80.142.182.221]) by shiva.mind.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32BC797B64; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:29:53 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:30:04 +0100 Reply-To: Marcus Boerger X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <194417295390.20031127143004@marcus-boerger.de> To: Christian Schneider Cc: Derick Rethans , PHP Developers Mailing List In-Reply-To: <3FC5FAC4.1070709@cschneid.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20031126172833.06829bb8@127.0.0.1> <5.1.0.14.2.20031126172833.06829bb8@127.0.0.1> <5.1.0.14.2.20031127123209.02a61918@127.0.0.1> <3FC5D71A.3010404@cschneid.com> <33409013843.20031127121202@marcus-boerger.de> <3FC5E06B.7020200@cschneid.com> <3FC5E44C.4050502@cschneid.com> <00fb01c3b4dc$ef50a370$8802a8c0@obsidian> <3FC5E631.9070202@cschneid.com> <20031127115654.GA15832@mail.thinkphphq.de> <3FC5E7B4.5020408@cschneid.com> <3FC5F3CA.6030101@cschneid.com> <3FC5FAC4.1070709@cschneid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Compatibility problems with PHP 5 From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger) Hello Christian, Thursday, November 27, 2003, 2:23:16 PM, you wrote: > Derick Rethans wrote: >> No, what I said was correct. As it is very unlikely that we create a new >> PHP 4 minor version we CAN not at a new function as it's impossible to >> modify source that has already been compiled on thousands of machines. > So no more bug fixes either? That's serious stuff and quite interesting > release management. > I'm tempted to bet that there will be another PHP4 release... (-:C > Oh, and just calling it "PHP 4.3.4 patch level xy" doesn't count ;-) > Maybe it could be done as a "missing __clone() method added" bug fix > then ;-) > Hmm.. if you completely abandon the PHP4 branch then maybe I could take > over and do PHP 4.4 on my own :-) He doesn't say that. We are doing a lot of work on the QA front and of course fix bugs and release new versions. But our policy is to introduce newer functionality only in minor versions. And the active RM has no plans for a 4.4 version since that would delay 5 more. -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net