does anyone care that there _will_ be a rather big number of folks (isps/hosting companies/etc) that will stay with 4.x for some time even if php5 is out? For me (being a developer) this is no problem, because I always work with the latest versions. But hosting comanies have to deal with 4 at least 'till April 2004, if not June. If they have the manpower (and machines) to run both (4 and 5), they will do so, but others will switch when they feel 5 is stable enough. Until then, they will have to support 4. This is why I'm +1 for a 4.5 release, right before 5 goes out. This should include fixes that already are in 5, but were not applied to 4 for whatever reason. I'm sure the above fix is not the only one being held back..
The above fix is being held back because it could only be fixed in a decent way with the new object model in PHP 5. This is not something which you would find fixed in PHP 4.5.
I think we should continue to support PHP 4 with bug fixes and minor additions but the focus should definitely be on PHP 5 right now.
Andi
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