Re: Ruminations on PHP 5++

hi Adam! On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote: > Internaleers! > > We seem to have a few things being discussed at the moment that are > somewhat beyond the scope of the sorts of changes we've been adding > since 5.3. (I think the new release and voting processes have > generally worked well here, incidentally: 5.4 and 5.5 have both been > releases with a good range of new features, yet haven't caused > significant pain in terms of BC and have been pretty stable.) Things > that fall into that category for me include: > > 1. size_t and int changes. really not going to wait 6 for that. But we have another thread to discuss it. > 4. Dare I say it, better multibyte encoding handling. (I don't want to > repeat the PHP 6 experience, but I'm also not sold on mbstring-ng > being the ultimate solution.) mbstring-ng and full unicode support can be seen as two different topics. While some parts overlap. > So here's my question: should we be starting to lay out a rough > schedule and list of desired features for a new major release? (I'm > going to call it 5++, since the actual number is controversial; I'd > prefer 7, but I know there's a school of thought that 6 is usable > again. Whatever. We can bikeshed that down the track.) No way for me, 6 never existed and I see no good reason to skip it just because we failed to make it happen back then. I'm not in marketing but tech. Also releasing 6 may actually improve our image. But releasing it as 7 will make us look like clowns again. Let avoid that. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org