Stas Malyshev wrote:
I'm totally against an alpha at this stage. Not before we have
clarified all we need to get a clean release.
OK, so what do you propose to do? I.e., if you think there are things to
be discussed, set the agenda. I think that besides typing, trunk is ok
for alpha, you obvious don't think so. So, in your opinion:
1. What's missing and should be added?
First thing perhaps ... which IS Pierre's problem ... Windows snapshots
But short of trawling the commit tree ... what HAS already been added?
( links to the CURRENT release notes from the windows site are broken by the
way )
2. What should be removed?
Without a clean list of what has been added ....
Although I do seem to have missed something in 5.3.3 - where is the constructor
in a namespaced class if it's not going to use the those that already exist in
the source non-namespaced one. Not having been able to move TO php5.3 yet I seem
to have missed that discussion.
3. When you expect/want it to happen?
Perhaps some time after PHP5.3 is actually complete on all windows builds?
Creating an Alpha of PHP-Trunk may be a way of creating the documentation that
is currently missing to even discuss the above questions, but how many of those
changes have even been tested on windows builds? Perhaps a move to a DVCS
approach WOULD be a good thing. Nothing gets allowed back into the master
without the necessary cross checks that there is agreement ... AND it has been
fully tested across all builds? However I am personally of the opinion that DVCS
is just creating a much bigger minefield for those projects that now depend on
it completely :( A single master IS essential for stable production releases.
Currently I am still working my way through the holes in PHP5.3.x which is why
PHP5.2 is STILL the last stable release as far as my ( windows ) customer sites
are concerned. SO sensible debate on the next step forward IS more important and
simply pulling PHP even further apart?
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