Re: [RFC] Name of Next Release of PHP
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:21:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Name of Next Release of PHP | ||
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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.
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Andrea Faulds
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