> So, this is closer to being a precedent for PHP than I suspected, *IF* the 
> intent is to support rolling upgrade within a Minor release (of Solaris) and 
> to reset to a more current version at Minor release points.  (Note 2005/462 
> above; we seem to be just getting around to this in Nevada.) Is this a match?

Yes, that was the original intent of Stefan's proposal.

> If so, the only thing missing is what are the criteria for introducing a new 
> version of PHP5. Examination of the Perl case has this, and it doesn't 
> transfer to PHP or anything else. I suspect these criteria will be specific 
> for each versioned component we add to the system and will need to be 
> supplied in each proposal.

Agreed.  In general, I think the criteria will be based on community
demand for an updated version, what features and/or fixes that new
version brings and obviously, what resources are available to bring
that new version forward.

As the intent is to bring some semblance of stability here, I would not
expect that we would be integrating every version.  :-)

dsc

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