Posted on July 18, 2007 at 06:42 UTC,
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Bugdar.
Now that Bugar 1.2.0 is out in its final version (you can go grab it from the Bugdar page), it’s time to start thinking about the next major release of Bugdar.
Major releases of Bugdar have been happening about every 9 months: 1.0.0 was released 17 January 2006, 1.1.0 was released 1 October 2006, and 1.2.0 was released 14 July 2007. I have been wanting to use some OOP features in PHP5 for a while in Bugdar (namely the ISSO3 framework) but because I don’t want to cut down on the userbase, I have been wary of doing so. However, with the GoPHP5 project roughly 9 months away, it seems like the perfect opportunity to switch to PHP5.
I do think the next release will be 2.0 as I don’t think there’s enough semi-major features to warrant a 1.3 release. I have some ideas as to what should be in 2.0 and I think it will be an amazing release. You can see just a few of the features that are likely coming in 2.0 here. Unless there is opposition to doing so, I think the next version of Bugdar will be 2.0 and will be PHP5 only. Moving to 5.2+ would mean a lot of legacy code can go away and I can move into much more advanced OOP programing, which would make Bugdar more robust and would help reduce the number of bugs, as well as increase testability.
And a side note: I’ve started moving all my open source SVN projects to be at Sourceforge as a way of consolidating my servers as I won’t have the resources to maintain as many next year in college! You can find Bugdar’s page here.