Re: Ruminations on PHP 5++

> > > Hah finally a serious talk about next major, with no (not yet) trolls in > it. > We have to release a new major , or at least to start thinking about > it seriously. > 5.3 and 5.4 could have been majors by themselves, as they really fully > changed the way you develop PHP apps. > > Like Nikita said, we have enough new (BC breaking) features and ideas > to start PHP5++ > > I'd like to add that I'd like to use this major to introduce some > clean-up as well, should they be internal or external. > We're gonna break BC, let's do it in a way so that we start back with > a new clean code base, like when PHP5.0 got released, with a new Zend > Engine 2 inside. > Let's use this major to refactor internals code and finally tidy up > things as well in external API. > > Julien.P > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > agree with all of the above mentioned points. I had a related post back in November, where I mentioned that we don't have a process for making major versions, but we desperatly need one: http://news.php.net/php.internals/70233 I'm already seeing the force/sneak in inappropriate changes to a minor version happening, because we don't have a plan for a major. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu