Re: PHP 6

On 2 July 2010 23:13, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:04, Ferenc Kovacs <info@tyrael.hu> wrote: >> Did the core-devs decided that the current trunk will be released as PHP6? >> if not, then you shouldn't advertise the current trunk as future PHP6. > >    Did you bother to do any research - any at all - before you > attempted to chastise me, Ferenc?  Apparently not.  If you had, you > probably wouldn't have clicked the "Send" button with such haste. > Discussions have gone back and forth (and I've seen your messages as > well, so I know you've seen it), and you should already know by now > that, while the actual PHP 6 branch itself was removed, the trunk is > still on-track to be the future PHP 6.  It may first branch as PHP > 5.4, but regardless, it is future PHP 6 code as well.  Simply reading > the SVN rules probably would've saved you and I both some time, but I > certainly don't mind correcting you.  Next time, pay attention before > giving someone an attitude in a public forum. > >    Now, what did you learn? Ferenc may not have worded it ideally, but he is quite correct and I agree with his point: there is no guarantee that the current trunk will be PHP 6, nor that there will ever be a PHP 6, given the argument presented on Internals when this was first discussed a few months back that it might be better to skip it to avoid confusing people who were unfortunate enough to buy "PHP 6" books. The point is: at present, there is no PHP 6. There may be in the future, but I don't think it's correct to say that trunk is unequivocally the "future PHP 6", and doing so only risks confusing an already muddled situation further. Adam