On 22.03.2013 18:10, Thomas Gries wrote:
just one message, just arrived:
http://php.net/archive/2013.php#id2013-03-21-1
PHP 5.5.0 beta1 available 21-Mar-2013
The PHP development team announces the release of the first beta of PHP 5.5.0. This release is the first to include the Zend OPCache. Please help our efforts to provide a stable PHP version and test this version carefully against several different applications, with Zend OPCache enabled and report any bug in the bug tracking system. THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT PREVIEW - DO NOT USE IT IN PRODUCTION!
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS still has 5.3 which is officially outdated by php.net and does not have traits and also no Closure::bindTo() which makes closures useless as mixin properties via __invoke(). Already had an ugly issue when local php 5.4 closure had access to instance $this while at server running 5.3 it produced an error. Quite strange that closures did not receive instance context in 5.3. And 5.2-style __get() based mixins are slower. And because 12.04 LTS is so much conservative I still cannot rely on 5.4 features in my projects (surely I can add ppa but it's not always a desirable thing). Also 5.4 had some Zend performance optimizations. But it seems they want to move to 5.5 even faster than 5.3 to 5.4 transition. Dmitriy