2010/8/10 Derick Rethans <der...@php.net>: > That's exactly what we have now: 5.2, 5.3 and trunk. I think your LTS > idea is way too optimistic. I really don't care about porting bug fixes > back to 5.2 because it is *four* years old. PHP 5.3 has been out for a > year. Right now there are not many API differences, but it *does* cost > extra time to maintain. Time we should rather spend on getting new > things out. Leave the 5.2 support to the distributions!
In terms of backporting fixes (talking more generally about the three branch model and not so much about 5.2 in particular), between PHP and other projects I'm involved with, I'm acutely aware of the pain there. Honestly, though, I'm not entirely comfortable just leaving it up to distributions: plenty of people run hand-built versions of PHP, and testing large codebases with new branches of PHP isn't always as quick a process as it should be. Or, put another way, just because I'm lucky enough to be able to run my code on the bleeding edge doesn't mean I don't feel a little bit obligated towards people who aren't that lucky. :) Adam -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
