Andi Gutmans wrote:
P.S. - Whatever happened to runtime JIT?
I think Dmitry is doing windows stuff and Pierre is busy as well. I
guess either one of them will do it, once they have time. Nobody else
has stepped up to take this on earlier.
Things are also not moving forward in the namespace and late static
binding front, which are two other features that could make PHP6 appealing.
Anyways the key point that I think various people have tried to make is
that PHP6 with a unicode on/off switch is essentially like 2 separate
PHP versions. As a result releasing PHP6 with such a switch is more or
less the same as making two major releases at the same time from the
development side of things. As a result even if we drop PHP4, it would
mean that the PHP development team would have to maintain 1 fairly
stable branch and two branches that need stabilizing. Eventually we will
also see a PHP7 branch etc. This means that the PHP dev team will have
to maintain more branches than before at a time where I see less and
less commits of the people that have worked on PHP in the last years (*)
and where very few of the new guys seem to feel comfortable to take on
adding or rewriting larger chunks of code.
regards,
Lukas
(*) As evident by the fact that we have been pushing off the PHP6
pre-alpha for over half a year with no movement on the main show stopper.
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