On 2010-11-23, Felipe Pena <felipe...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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:
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> - 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 {}As Matthew pointed out, I consider this a pretty grave BC break. > - 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. +1, I agree. We should hold 5.4 off until we have at least a sane release process and solve the type hinting question. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
