Re: What to do with PHP 6

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Philip Olson wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As most of us know, PHP 6 has disappeared. It used to be 5.3+unicode > but now it's unknown and certainly not worth mentioning in the PHP > manual (at least, as a version that introduces features/changes). > With that said, let's talk about what to do. First: > > $ egrep --exclude=\*.svn\* -r -n "PHP 6" * |wc -l > > 105 > > Or, better than grep ;) > > $ ack "PHP 6" * |wc -l > > 105 > > Around 13 are in versions.xml, and 51 in ini.xml. We must handle this as a case-by-basis > because not all of these features are unicode specific, and even those that are may [or may not] be > in the next PHP version for all we know... nobody really knows. Our options: > > (a) Remove or comment out the docs (a sad thought) > (b) Make guesses as to which PHP version they'll be in (5.4 is likely for many, but > easily wrong) > (c) Move them to an appendix (doesn't feel right) > (d) Write "Future PHP Release" or similar until we know (seems okay) > (e) ... > > I lean towards (d) for most cases. Thoughts? call it "PHP NG", with a huge early disclaimer that you're not sure what the number will be. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================