Andi Gutmans wrote:
Hey,
There have been a lot of questions and discussion regarding status of
PHP 5.1.
In the past few weeks, many have been fixing lots of bugs and PDO seems
to have reached a pretty stable state.
In parallel, a lot of work has been done offline by Andrei, Dmitry and
others, to enable Unicode support in PHP and the Zend Engine.
I believe it is time now to move 5.1 forward at a much faster pace. I'd
like to roll a beta of it towards the end of next week such as Thursday
(giving a chance for some last minute fixes), and then hopefully RC
within a week or two.
Once we RC PHP 5.1, we should branch it off to PHP_5_1 and make HEAD the
Unicode development stream (merging Unicode changes into HEAD).
Hopefully, by going at this pace, we can have a pretty decent Unicode
version of PHP out there within a few months; and have PDO out there
almost immediately.
So I envision:
End of June - PHP 5.1. Main feature PDO, Improved ZEII and other
improvements.
Q3.2005 - Beta of PHP 5.5/6.0 featuring Unicode support.
Judging by the importance of the 5.5/6.0 release, I think shooting for a
stable PEAR 1.4.0 in that release would make sense as well. I will of
course run this by the other PEAR folks since they probably care a
little more about the details of this decision :). It will not be ready
for a stable release in a week or two, there's still some wrangling over
features.
One thing to note: I've been working on PHP_Archive with Davey Shafik,
which will allow PEAR to be distributed in a single file, and this means
the CVS sync nightmare that is PEAR in the unix build can be eliminated
by this solution. This also will not be ready in a week or two, so
5.5/6.0 it is.
Thanks,
Greg
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