Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:16:36 -0700 Perhaps we should try running php.net and zend.com on php5 before we release? if we're not even eating our own dogfood yet, it seems premature to release. -sterling
The followup is quite interesting.
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:04:36 +0200, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > I don't think having php.net run PHP 5 is a pre-requisite for a release. What high traffic site is PHP5 RCx powering at the moment? Where is PHP5 being stress tested? How many people have deployed it for non-academic purposes? Running php.net on PHP5 isn't about making php.net run better, its about making PHP5 run better. In the PHP4 days, as you remember, we were running PHP4 on php.net since beta 1, why have we not switched to php5 since beta 1? I understand that deployment must come after the release for the majority of sites out there, but that is all the more reason that we should take every opportunity we have to test it in a real world circumstance before releasing it onto the public. -Sterling
Even if this is not a question of stability that is dogging PHP5, but one of porting and backward compatibility, surely moving zend.com or php.net to PHP5 will make an excellent test and persuasive case-study.
