Zeev Suraski wrote:
Umm, that's not exactly an option, not before 5.1 proves itself stable (as far as architecture goes - the changes between 5.0 and 5.1 are as substantial as the changes between 4.x and 5.0 were). PHP 5.0 is deployed on roughly 5% of the userbase, including most of the new users in the last year. We definitely can't get rid of the branch anytime soon (nor do I see any motivation to do it ever), and we'll have to maintain it with security fixes for some time.
I have one more question. You say "security fixes". Did you intentionally omit (serious) bug fixes?
I think limiting ourselves to security fixes in 5.0.x once 5.1.x seems like the sensible thing to do with our limited ressources.
Also note that some bug fixes are already being limited to 5.1.x at this point, like the custom streams bug I brought up recently on this list. (note: I am not trying to get on Wez's case on this bug, I understand the reasoning of only fixing this in 5.1.x. I just want to make sure we are all on the same page as to the development roadmap ..).
The same should apply to 4.x at a later date. regards, Lukas -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
