Re: About PHP6 ...
| From: | Nikita Popov | Date: | Wed, 02 Apr 2014 17:57:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: About PHP6 ... | ||
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On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Eli <eli@eliw.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone. I've been hitting a lot of conferences recently, and
> found myself having the same discussion with multiple members of the
> community. And many of them have 'heavily encouraged me' to bring this
> discussion up here. And Julien's recent PHP6 email, reminded me that I
> hadn't done so.
>
> The short form is:
>
> We should not name the next version of PHP: PHP6, for 2 reasons:
> 1. It will cause confusion in those least able to adapt
> 2. It costs us nothing, hurts us in no way, to name it something else
>
There is potential for confusion regardless of what we do. If it's PHP 6,
we get conflicts with existing literature. If it's PHP 7, this will lead to
confusion about a version number being skipped. (Which is imho a pretty big
wtf moment.)
I find it quite ridiculous to break our versioning scheme over this kind of
nonesense.
Nikita