Hi, > > That is no solution for the real problem. People are frustrated > > because they don't know if their software runs on the next machine > > they put it on because this machine maybe has another PHP-version. > > It's the same thing like GD or Apache 2. Why was GD forked by PHP, > > why was Apache 2-SAPI development stopped for a long time? Because > > it was unsatisfying.
> I meant a 'stable' snapshot which is taken from the PHP_4_2_0 branch. Yes. But a lot of people don't even know that there is a snaps.php.net. Even a lot of admins don't know this. What about calling this snapshot 4.2.3 and releasing this on the homepage? > > What does the license say about forking PHP? > You can fork if you want, but not call it something with PHP in it's > name. But consider what you are doing then. What pros does it have > instead of using a snapshot? IMO it will only shatter development and > QA, and that's not a good idea. I did not say I want to fork PHP ;) I don't even have the knowledge to do this but there are more and more people who want to do something like that and who have the power. I'm working in a big international company and we have a lot of external programmes and consultans, so we have a high fluctuation of high professional programmers (well... most of them are high professional ;)) and some of them have talked about things like this. I think a lot more have thought about this but of course not everyone talked to me on this issue. In the past I always tried to soothe these people by saying "the next relase, the next release, the next release..." but in the meantime I've stopped to believe in these words. Yes well, that's not your problem but think about this. Another Idea may be a commercially supported PHP with guranteed response times for bugs for professional users who have the money to pay for this. Of course all these patches are managed via PHP CVS and so the "normal" users get the patches 2-6 months later (if the rely on releases). Maybe this is a concept for companys like Zend or Maguma. Regards, Sebastian Nohn -- +49 170 471 8105 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.nohn.net/ PGP Key Available - Did I help you? Consider a gift: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/wishlist/3HYH6NR8ZI0WI/ -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
