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rspahni's avatar

L5: Recommendable commit for those who want to exercise...

... rather 4.3-ish features such as folder structure, namespacing, providers, route caching, etc., yet without POPO controllers, annotations and middleware that Taylor is currently working on. I.e. Illuminate\Routing\Controller, $this->beforeFilter() and FilterServiceProvider still worked/existed at that point (Oct 5th), as well as L4 pagination, db caching etc. I'm not aware of any bugs in this build but haven't tried FormRequests (none of my interests):

"require": {
        "laravel/framework": "dev-master#35ec56017fa2b77933c713b44399a087c6e635d9"

Might spare you the daily composer update headaches and you can examine many features that imho look pretty stable already (no guarantees, of course).

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keevitaja's avatar

I decided to develop my new L5 side project in 4.3 and upgrade when L5 hits stable. Had too many issues with it and probably in the long run i'll be faster on stable release if i refactor later.

I have just so many features that do not care about the version, so i think it makes sense if i work on those considering stable L5 is not very far away!

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