Re: What to do with PHP 6

On Mar 31, 2010, at 7:48 AM, Adam Harvey wrote: > On 31 March 2010 22:25, Christopher Jones <christopher.jones@oracle.com> wrote: >> It's not clear if/how these features are going to be re-included. >> >> I'd prefer to see them commented out. Displaying mis-information is >> harmful to the overall PHP project. > > Agreed. We can always reincorporate documentation for any features > that are backported to the new 5.3-based trunk, but since most of them > are going to be Unicode-related, I don't think there's any need to > keep them user-visible for now. Great feedback everyone! Replying to all here: - The word Next. Next (or NG) implies the next release, whatever that might be. Although likely true, this feels misleading. - Trunk. Not everyone knows what SVN is, much less Trunk. We could link/teach but ... - Commenting out stuff. Sounds reasonable. We use FIXME in several places, and will do so here too. - Rewording. Reasonable for some cases, e.g. "Magic quotes are deprecated and will be removed from PHP in the next major release." I'll come up with a patch today [or tomorrow] that'll hopefully make sense and take into account peoples concerns. It won't make any guesses, and we can review it together. Note: Our general policy is to only document things we know will exist (and when), and we were once certain PHP 6 was going to happen. Note: http://php.net/manual/en/about.phpversions.php Regards, Philip