hi developers, my name is mirko giese, i live and work in germany, actual for lycos europe. and damn, it looks like i am the oldest here: i'm 28. i have an other opensource-project, i'm working on phpOpenChat (http://www.ortelius.de/phpopenchat/) i work with php and mysql for about 5 years, starting with php/fi and msql then later going through php3 and now arrived at php4. that brings me to another aspect of this project: at this stage its - as far as i know - full compatibel to php3. that unfortunately reduces the number of good functions a lot. maybe it would be better to give away the php3-support (they still have the actul version working) and take all the advantages from php4 in the next version. what do you think? to the splitting in to trees: although this would meand more work for every developer i think thats a good idea. if we keep the development in the same tree as the last stable product and making the changes for our own, waiting to the point we have a stable patch, we may loose the advantage of cvs, to work together on problems. and as i know from other cvs-based projects: if you wait a long time with comitting, you get such horrible cvs-conflicts which takes a very long time to repair. ok, thats all for me regards from germany Mirko Giese

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