Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:62104 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 24896 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2012 15:31:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Aug 2012 15:31:43 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 213.123.20.131 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.123.20.131 c2bthomr13.btconnect.com Received: from [213.123.20.131] ([213.123.20.131:53328] helo=mail.btconnect.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 3B/5A-00812-CD7D3205 for ; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:31:41 -0400 Received: from host81-138-11-136.in-addr.btopenworld.com (EHLO _10.0.0.5_) ([81.138.11.136]) by c2bthomr13.btconnect.com with ESMTP id IPY46546; Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:31:38 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <5023D7D5.1060502@lsces.co.uk> Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:31:33 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120604 Firefox/13.0 SeaMonkey/2.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PHP internals References: <5023CE88.60501@cdatazone.org> <5023D4C1.3040205@lerdorf.com> In-Reply-To: <5023D4C1.3040205@lerdorf.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mirapoint-IP-Reputation: reputation=Fair-1, source=Queried, refid=tid=0001.0A0B0301.5023D7D7.0004, actions=tag X-Junkmail-Premium-Raw: score=7/50, refid=2.7.2:2012.8.9.143615:17:7.944, ip=81.138.11.136, rules=__MOZILLA_MSGID, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, __HAS_FROM, __USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __ANY_URI, __URI_NO_WWW, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, BODY_ENDS_IN_URL, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_1400_1499, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, RDNS_GENERIC_POOLED, HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, RDNS_SUSP_GENERIC, RDNS_SUSP, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=c2bthomr13.btconnect.com X-Junkmail-Signature-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A0B0204.5023D7DA.0032:SCFSTAT14830815,ss=1,re=-4.000,fgs=0, ip=0.0.0.0, so=2011-07-25 19:15:43, dmn=2011-05-27 18:58:46, mode=multiengine X-Junkmail-IWF: false Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.3 status From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > On 08/09/2012 11:10 AM, Levi Morrison wrote: >> >On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Rob Richards wrote: >>> >>Whats the status of 5.3? I have some changes that need to get into a couple >>> >>of the xml based extensions in order for them to work with the next libxml2 >>> >>release next month. Should I be putting these into 5.3 as well? >>> >> >>> >>Rob >> > >> >By no means am I an official representative, but I'd like to see them >> >NOT put into the 5.3 series. Security fixes I can understand, but we >> >WANT people to upgrade. If we keep developing 5.3 then what's the >> >point of 5.4 and 5.5? > Until we EOL 5.3 we should make sure it builds against current versions > of common things like libxml2. We also don't have APC ready for all the > new features in 5.4, so it isn't viable to upgrade to it yet for many sites. Not just APC ... It would be useful to document all the extensions that are still only available in PHP5.3 ( or earlier )... There seems to be a number of reasons ISP's are giving for not offering PHP5.4 yet but getting a definitive answer seems impossible. -- 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 Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk