Recess .2 Release

Posted Aug 7, 2009 by Kris | Comments ( 3 ) | Filed in: Release | | | | |

It's been a long journey since the release of .12 in April. With the exciting release of PHP 5.3 we wanted to push out bulk of the planned .2 changes as soon as possible, which include some fixes to not break a couple of PHP features deprecated in 5.3. Other features that are in this release:

• Refined, More Extensible Core Classes
• Custom Annotations
• Simpler Directory Structure
• New Views, Layouts, Parts, and Blocks
• Content-Negotiation and Format based View Selection
  
• Runs in PHP 5.3

Get the bits in zip or tarball form while they're hot!

We learned a big lesson in the 4 month development process moving Recess from 0.12 to 0.20: we were ambitious and took a big bite, perhaps a bit more than we could chew. The new controls/validation model still isn't ready for this release. (If you're adventurous you can find some prototyping in 0.20's bits!) Lesson learned: moving forward development be focused on fewwer features at a time and released as they are completed.

With the release of 5.3 now nearly a month past it is clear that namespaces, late static binding, lambdas, and the dramatic performance improvements are going to make 5.3 the PHP version of choice for new PHP projects. Our next focus is on a 5.3 Recess branch that leverages these powerful, fundamental language features to make developing in PHP more enjoyable.

Next week there will be more discussion on what to expect with Recess 5.3, the launch of a Recess wiki (finally!), and some tutorials on new features in PHP 5.3.