Re: Next major version must be 7 (Lessons learned from the ECMAScript committee)
On Mar 13, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
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> On 13.03.2010, at 22:52, Stefan Marr wrote:
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>> On 13 Mar 2010, at 22:43, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
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>>> Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>>>> No, not ok. We will call the next release whatever we like. People who
>>>> have written books or articles about PHP 6 inferring they knew what the
>>>> final state of PHP 6 would be were misguided. We never got to the point
>>>> of a final feature set much less a release date.
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>>> +1
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>>> Authors that wrote, publishers that published and readers that bought
>>> books on PHP 6 need to be ... punished ;-)
>> Is that wise and well-considered or something the community might regret in the long run?
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> Nobody needs to be punished and I think Rasmus stayed clear of such words for a reason. The
> name of the next version is not really all that relevant more if the next version will be a minor
> bump (aka x.y+1) or a major (aka x+1.y).
The PHP manual refers to "PHP 6" over 200 times, and there are probably a few people
who've written code that takes this information into account. I'm not saying the proposal
in this thread is a solution or needed, but there is a valid concern here.
The PHP manual will be updated once this is figured out, with extra care ensuring unicode and PHP 6
information is current. All suggestions for how to handle this today are welcome.
Regards,
Philip
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