Chris Stockton wrote:
Hello,
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <ka...@php.net> wrote:
But what is every ones input on the matter of attempting to boost
PHP6's development? I'm willing to give my part in whatever I can to
help getting up on the feet to get this ball rolling.
I think that some more focus on PHP6 would be great! Though I am not
sure if 5.2 could stop development (although perhaps a resource shift
to 5.3/6, starving new 5.2 features/backports for 5.2 security/bug
fixes only). I would hate to see PHP6 become P(erl)HP6 :p
I have the same feeling on 5.2. While I'm very happy with PHP 5.3
(especially with the addition of closures), it takes a nontrivial amount
of work to migrate a web app from PHP 5.2 to 5.3.
The PHP 5.3 compatibility issue for the Drupal CMS
(http://drupal.org/node/360605), for example, had over 200 comments, and
it took about 9 months before a patch was committed to the current
version of Drupal in September (see comment 158). That's not the only
example, but it's a prominent one that comes to my mind.
It makes sense to shift resources, but it's way too soon IMHO to stop
doing security and bug fixes for 5.2.
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