At 20:57 30/05/2005, Marcus Boerger wrote:
We don't break BC here. We simply proceed as we did in the past. And we do this to give the users the best PHP we can. On the other hand all you said pretty much sounds like excuses to not do a new version. But why do you fear that? Too much work - no since we would emmidiatley stop 4.3 support. BC break - no since there simply is none. Everyone has to rebuild - well this is a normal thing and all the windows users are used to simply download the executables and for 95% of the *nix users it is only waiting for new packages. Anybody being able to compile on his own will not have any problem at all since he obviously is capable of building a working php anyway.
I'm tired going through the reasons again and again, and frankly it's not the end of the world if we go with 4.4. I just thought that it's not justified (there are downsides to it even if you guys fail to admit that), but since everyone appears to prefer the upsides to the downsides, let's just go ahead and do it. We just have to be very clear in our release notes stating it's a bug fix release that just happens to break downwards compatibility.
And the patch addresses some very serious problems. Unfortunatley there are still a bunch of other issues unaddressed by now. To prevent 4.5 from popping up to soon i think we should all take some look into fixing those issues too.
I agree. Zeev -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
