Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:62938 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 18098 invoked from network); 10 Sep 2012 23:15:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Sep 2012 23:15:50 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=smalyshev@sugarcrm.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=smalyshev@sugarcrm.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain sugarcrm.com designates 67.192.241.163 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: smalyshev@sugarcrm.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 67.192.241.163 smtp163.dfw.emailsrvr.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [67.192.241.163] ([67.192.241.163:58104] helo=smtp163.dfw.emailsrvr.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 2E/14-26944-5A47E405 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:15:50 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp26.relay.dfw1a.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id B325F80286; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:15:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: OK Received: by smtp26.relay.dfw1a.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: smalyshev-AT-sugarcrm.com) with ESMTPSA id B044080364; Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:15:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <504E74A0.5000702@sugarcrm.com> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:15:44 -0700 Organization: SugarCRM User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120824 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nikita Popov CC: Rasmus Lerdorf , Anthony Ferrara , Pierre Joye , jpauli , PHP Internals References: <504E4568.4030701@lerdorf.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What is our definition of a "Backward Compatibility Break" From: smalyshev@sugarcrm.com (Stas Malyshev) Hi! > This is concerning me a bit. Does this mean that PHP 5.5 will be > branched off PHP 5.4 and we will then backport features from master? > If so, this would seem like a Very Bad Idea to me, from a purely > technical point of view. Unless I'm much mistaken this would have to I think also it's not a good idea, not sure what Pierre meant by that though. So far I don't think we have anything BC-breaking in master, but if we do we may have to split it in bc and non-bc branches. > Before Pierre said that I was under the impression that PHP 5.5 will > be branched off master, which would make a lot more sense to me. Could > someone clarify how it will be done? I was assuming this too. I guess we need some clarification on what Pierre was meaning. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227