Given the current state of trunk, I think 5.4 release process should
not begin tomorrow (alpha or whatever other status). There are
numerous identified issues that we need to fix before even think to
begin with a release. For example:
- type hinting (or strict hinting)
- no consensus
- the RFCs are unclear
- BC break introduced
. classes named as any of the type hint scalar types
do not work anymore
aka class int {}
- Traits may not be ready yet for pre-release
- see http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=298348
- APC support
- There are many changes not BC with 5.x, as we allowed them for the
development tree, before 5.4 was even a topic
- APC is not yet bundled. Having the opcode bundle can raise issues by
one or another, we should have it in from the very 1st release
- pecl/http was planned to be bundled. What's the status?
We also have no plan about what will or will not be 5.4. This looks
familiar, this is exactly how we begun 5.3 and it tooks literally
years to be released. There is also actually no agreement to begin
with 5.4 now.
5.4 should be hold off until we solved the listed issues and the
release management RFC gets discussed and hopefully approved.
Thanks.
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Regards,
Felipe Pena
