I'd love to see my brand-new mbstring implementation in the release. Dropping mbstring completely won't be any good because lots of applications rely on it, but I don't really want to maintain the funky library bundled with it.
Moriyoshi On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf <ras...@lerdorf.com> wrote: > Ah, Jani went a little crazy today in his typical style to force a > decision. The real decision is not whether to have a version 5.4 or > not, it is all about solving the Unicode problem. The current effort > has obviously stalled. We need to figure out how to get development > back on track in a way that people can get on board. We knew the > Unicode effort was hugely ambitious the way we approached it. There are > other ways. > > So I think Lukas and others are right, let's move the PHP 6 trunk to a > branch since we are still going to need a bunch of code from it and move > development to trunk and start exploring lighter and more approachable > ways to attack Unicode. We have a few already. Enhanced mbstring and > ext/intl. Let's see some good ideas around that and work on those in > trunk. Other features necessarily need to play along with these in the > same branch. I refuse to go down the path of a 5.4 branch and a > separate Unicode branch again. > > The main focus here needs to be to get everyone working in the same branch. > > -Rasmus > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
