Re: PHP 5.5 or 6.0

From: Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 10:04:38 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP 5.5 or 6.0
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On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:41:07 +0200 (CEST) derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) wrote: > Now that we branched it's time to rename HEAD to something else > than 5.1 in order to have different version numbers. Although the > name PHP 5.5 was mentioned before, I do think we should call it > PHP 6.0. As the Unicode support is quite a drastic change. Going > with PHP 6.0 also allows us to be a little less strict with > breaking BC in the cases where that might be useful for the > Unicode support. > > I took the freedom to commit this change to CVS, as I needed > already different version numbers for the different versions of > PHP that I install locally. If discussion results that we need to > rename it to something else, that's ofcourse perfectly fine. I have no special oppinions on php 5.5 or 6.0. But I have some about what we will do in php 5.x (without unicode, namespace), and 6.0. I like to see once that we clearly and loudly define what we want in or not. So I may waste less time than before. --Pierre

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