Re: Re: Hold off 5.4

May I ask not to begin with that again? The php 2034 thing? Let sort out what has to be sorted out, like the current proposals. In the short term, a 5.x (with BC) is what users and developers are looking for. We can then begin to think about the next big step. On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:58 PM, James Butler <james.butler@edigitalresearch.com> wrote: > Slightly brambly thoughts... > I think (imho) the PHP6 hype in user land died down long ago after it became obvious it > wouldn't materialise any time soon. It would be nice to see 6 to appear if only to break the > (apparent) deadlock that the Unicode stuff brought on(I realise this is not enough justification by > itself) > What will this mean to all the Hosting providers etc who are still finishing long running > 4->5 or  5.x -> 5.3 migrations? Will they resist change more because it looks like a bigger > change regardless of the underlying code? As they provide installs/hosting for what I can guess to > be a huge amount of the PHP's actual users is it factor that's worth considering > > I realise this is a Friday afternoon category comment but it can't wait.. > Think of all of those PHP6 books that will be reduced to near junk status in swift > branch/commit action > And as a bonus > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jani Taskinen [mailto:jani.taskinen@iki.fi] > > On Nov 25, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Patrick ALLAERT wrote: > >> 2010/11/25 Jani Taskinen <jani.taskinen@iki.fi>: >>> Who says it has to be 5.4? People seem to be a bit fixated on the version there. >> >> I'd like to know too... >> >>> Major BC breaks just means the version released from trunk is 6.0. And it's just a >>> number. Big number, but still just a number. >> >> Well, such a change tends to create a big buzz, without mentioning >> stuff like certifications, trainings,... > > This is a joke, right? > >> We should avoid creating a virtual PHP 6.0 which will contain all the >> BC stuff while all features appears in 5.x. >> By doing so we will keep some shit in 5.x forever and won't have >> anything appealing enough to migrate to 6.0 > > ..or have something really new and interesting in PHP 7.0.0. The big version number change is > reserved for BC changing stuff, not just for "fancy new stuff". > > --Jani > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org