5.8.0-RELEASE: XP Compiler, Extension methods, Generics revamped, ...

After almost one and a half years of development since the 5.8 branch was created and almost four months the active development branch, SVN trunk, was changed from 5.7 to 5.8, after six release candidates - we finally, and proudly present: XP 5.8, release zero

The most noteable changes are the following:

• The minimum required PHP version is 5.2.10
  
• The XP Compiler is now part of the framework. It compiles XP Language to XP Framework classes and supports syntactically what the framework does with "tricks": Type-safe enums, anonymous classes, finally, to name just a few.
  
• Not having the date.timezone setting configured will now yield a startup error. PHP behaves in undefined ways when working with dates in this situation! The installer takes care of detecting it from the operating system on setup.
  
• Extension methods have been added - see here for an example
  
• Generics have been reworked to support runtime reflection and primitive types, and thus behave more like the C# than like the Java implementation.
  
• Reflection API can now access private and protected methods and fields using setAccessible() - regardless of the underlying PHP version!
  
• Support for array and hash keys (key[], key[name]) in ini files
  
• Several additions to the xml.meta API - showcased in the article Hudson and the xml.meta API
  
• The new indexer access functionality, this()
  
• Unicode forward compatibility in the io.streams classes TextWriter and TextReader
  

  $ wget http://releases.xp-framework.net/setup/5.8.0~unicodeRC2 -O - | php -- -d ~/bin/

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