Re: [VOTE][RFC] Name of Next Release of PHP

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > > On 22 Jul 2014, at 15:12, Jonny Stirling <phoenix@jonstirling.co.uk> > wrote: > > > Or, (maybe this is controversial in itself), drop the entire thing. > > > > Until there is in fact, a next major version, what its name will be is > surely moot, and until there is a GA release (or at the earliest alphas / > beta test releases), there should be no such thing as a versioned / > numbered release. > > > > Assuming the above, there is no need to discuss / vote on this now, but > in 1-3 years or so (depending on who you listen to ;)), and in that time > frame, shouldn't it simply remain as PHP.next (or some random codename / > whatever). > > There is a good reason to do this now: to avoid having to bikeshed about > it later. > > -- > Andrea Faulds > http://ajf.me/ > That's not a good reason, and it doesn't avoid any such thing anyway I'm afraid. PHP6 / 7 / whatever, does not exist, and will not exist (like I said) until official releases as the next major version are put out. Tis a pretty simple solution for a problem that does not actually exist in the present.