> -----Original Message----- > From: Marcus Boerger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:39 AM > To: Andi Gutmans > Cc: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Replace the flex-based scanner with an > re2c [1] based lexer > > This sounds like we are going to do the same mistake over and over and > over > again. Who is forcing a hard time line on us? Why are we late in the > develoment I don't get it at all. We haven't done all steps that were > on > our radar for 5.3. Now that we finally found time to address this we > should > do it. Otherwise the consequence is just that we have to do a 5.4 > version > immediately. What is the reason for that, who is more happy with a 5.3 > now? > Are we a company that makes money with selling upgrades?
Actually you'd be surprised but for a company it's easier to have less versions than more versions because you don't need to suddenly update & QA all of your products again (one of the problems with supporting open-source is too many versions :) Fortunately I can do what I think is right for PHP disconnected from those kind of dependencies :) No one is forcing a hard deadline but let's not behave like this is something we can just sneak in especially when we don't deal with a huge audience (multibyte) and make people believe we can do it quickly. I was going off the premise which I thought everyone was on board with which meant a Beta in Q1. If we are going to change that then let's be honest with ourselves and suggest a new schedule which allows addressing the issues and enough testing in order to make it into a stable PHP 5.3. Andi -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
