PHP 5 release postponed
Unofficially, but not at all unexpected: the release of the new PHP engine, earlier mentioned to be halfway January, has been postponed to an uknown data, “because there some problems with testing”
DUH.
There have been some issues indeed, but, as far I found, it mostly boils down to decisions taken: Why not support MySQL5 where a good version IS available on both AXP and Itanium? Why has the AJAX engine been limited? The only real error I found so far is the occurring stack overflow, and that is definitely something to worry about, it could be a design flaw in the PCRE module, or is it a simple code error?
As long as the issues that I ran into are properly addressed (that is: solved) I prefer a better product that is properly tested and works well – at least, better than the current version, and I’m willing to wait a while. But keeping your (unofficial) testers – your future users – ‘in the dark’ is a bad, bad habit. HP can (and should) do better.
Licences
is such another issue. This weekend, my current licenses expire. And I haven’t heard of any new arriving. Not a real big issue, I could go on using the Hobbyist license, until September.
What goes on behind the doors of the (private) data center