Eclipse PHP Development Tools 5.0 Release Review

Type
Release
State
Successful
End Date of the Review Period

Reviews run for a minimum of one week. The outcome of the review is decided on this date. This is the last day to make comments or ask questions about this review.

Release

5.0

Description



PDT 5.0 introduces lot of new features, like:

  • PHPUnit Support
  • Zend Debugger profiler support
  • Built-In PHP Server Support
  • Compiler and DOM AST API are no longer internal
  • Semantic validation, like type not found, type not implented
  • Getter / Setter generator
  • Override method wizard

Over 80 has been fixed!

Architectural Issues
  • Importer feature for Neon has beed merged to Core-UI
  • ASTs and it's utils are available in API
  • Current API is ustable and mostly provisional
Security Issues

There are no security issues.

Non-Code Aspects

None

Usability Details
  • We reorganized Project Prefences
End of Life

Nothing is end of lifed in this release.

Standards

None

Communities

We have 8 active committers, with vary amounts of activity as all of them are only part time working on PDT directly. Zend Technologies is actively involved in PDT development via it's committers and non-committers who contribute significant features.

During this release cycle, Alex Xu joined to us.

This release is part of Eclipse Oxygen