Re: Re: Hold off 5.4

On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 11:58 -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > On 2010-11-26, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: > > > 3. The motivation to skip 6 doesn't stem from marketing at all. The > > > main motivation is that there's a VERY concrete perception amongst > > > many users about what PHP 6 is. > > > > Leaving the very small conference crowd for a second: nobody never > > ever heard of php6 before the total fiasco a couple of months ago. > > Not true. There have been "PHP 6" books *published* and on the market > for literally years. While none of them mention Unicode in any meaningful way ;-) But well, the first thing is: "Do we want to go to a new major version number or not?" Only if we do the question for 6, 7, 42, ... is relevant. I interpret the discussion as more people favor 5.4. So the other discussion can be held when it is decided to change the major version. johannes (who will propose a key syntax change in a moment)