Re: About PHP6 ...

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Adam Jon Richardson <adamjonr@gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote: > > And when I google "php 7" (in quotes), I get 901,000 results. > > Funny :) > > Seriously, though, did you compare the result sets? Try viewing the > context for the "php 6" search. Randomly dig into the results, going > further into the pages, and I believe you'll see that many of results > appear to be related to the now-dead branch (I quick viewed up through > results page 35, where they stopped.) Compare that context with the > results for "php 7," which appear to be coincidentally proximal > occurrences of "php" and "7" unrelated to any version. > > The point is, there are more than just a few authors that, in your > words, screwed up. There were many resources focused on the expected > release, and much of that information is still online, in addition to > books, podcasts, etc. > > Adam > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Yes but that was my point: Just because there's a lot of results doesn't mean they're actually relevant. I just did a quick search for "PHP 6". After looking through 2 pages of results, I found only one page that seemed to reference the now-defunct plans for PHP 6. It was dated 2007. And even then, it made no mention of a set release date; just the usual stuff about unicode support and misc cleanup. All the other results in my sample were recent and fell into one of two categories: Discussion/predictions about what will be coming-up in the *actual* PHP 6 release and complaining about why it's taking so long for PHP 6 to come out. If we suddenly just skip it entirely and go to PHP 7, we're going to have a shitload of results from people asking, "What ever happened to PHP 6?!" and why they can't find it anywhere. --Kris