Re: [RFC] Name of Next Release of PHP

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > > On 7 Jul 2014, at 13:19, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am skeptical on bigint in the engine given what is possible now in >> gmp. But yes, phpng is also a problem as it creates a total new code >> base and barely blocks any other improvements. Why? Except that bigint >> thing, I do not see many people trying to add stuff based on phpng at >> this point, it is a moving target and will move a lot in the next >> months as well. But this is a topic for another thread, this one being >> about the version number and this exact RFC. > > The problem is that people who want to add stuff for PHP 6 feel they have to add it to phpng, > because if phpng is to be PHP 6, then it would need to be based off that branch. Exactly, and for what I see, it is run forward and at some point we will see a post asking to replace master with phpng and use it as base for php6. To me this would be a bad thing, but this is the direction phpng is taking. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org