RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: Hold off 5.4

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jani Taskinen [mailto:jani.taskinen@iki.fi] > Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 12:25 AM > To: davey@php.net > Cc: PHP Internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Hold off 5.4 > > Who says it has to be 5.4? People seem to be a bit fixated on the version there. > 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. > > Merging (by and or by magic :) features into branch created from 5.3 just > sounds like plane crash waiting to happen.. I agree and I don't think we're in as bad shape although there's some cleaning up that needs to be done. For what it's worth the changes we've made in the Zend Engine around performance and memory use could warrant a major version. Every major version of PHP in the past has been driven foremost by major engine overhauls. I believe there's quite a bit more that we can do during the pre-beta phase in these areas to strengthen that and those changes with a combination of traits, some cleanup of deprecated e.g. safe_mode could warrant a major new version. If we do go down that route I would advocate calling it PHP 7 and not PHP 6, not because I like jumping ahead so far (I don't like I am sure most people here don't) but we don't want people to search for PHP 6 and find past information which is not relevant to this version we release. Then again I can live with it either way but we should be aware of the negative implications there could be. Andi