On 6/19/07, Rasmus Lerdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But this is no different from writing code that will work on both PHP 5 and PHP 6. The only difference is that instead of checking for PHP 5 you will be checking for Unicode. Like I said, we don't want the Unicode decision to be synonymous with PHP 5 vs. PHP 6 because then the non-Unicode folks will never get the benefits of the non-Unicode improvements in PHP 6 and we would be forced to support PHP 5 for a lot longer. We really stretch our already thing resources in order to support multiple branches, so anything we can do to get as many people as possible onto the same codebase helps us a lot.
Just as a last (hopefully) comment, even if nothing seemed to have an influence, no matter how many we are to prefer a unicode only mode (so far only you are in favour of it, maybe Andree too but I don't remember his opinion on this topic :). The gain we hope to have by keeping a non unicode mode is about having more users moving to PHP6. I would like to know why it will work better than with php5, any thoughts? And let forget that maintaining (and develop/implement) these two modes will obviously take more time. Cheers, --Pierre -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
