Re: 6.0 And Moving Forward

> People are forgetting why we have version numbers. > > Yes, it's very spectacular to have all the new stuff in a major release, but > that's not what major versions are for. > Major versions are for BC breaks. And point releases are for BC-compatible > new features. > Therefore in 5.x releases old and new features should co-exist, and in 6.x > the old ones should just go. > Otherwise there's no point of using versions *at all*, and PHP can just > publish build numbers or dates. > > Here's a refresher of the rules of versioning: > http://semver.org/ > > Stan Stan, just to clarify, I'm for BC breaks and overall evolution in a language. It makes perfect sense to me, to go through the steps of marking deprecated and later removing those... As is clear on "Semantic Versioning" http://semver.org What I was stating is that: IF you want to keep the old way of doing things around instead of removing them, it should be "change settings/tag/whatever so it work as the old way" and not "change it so it works the new way", that was my only point. Cheers Daniel Macedo