Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 == PHP 6?

2008-04-12 Thread Lester Caine
Wietse Venema wrote: Johannes Schl�ter: Hi, On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 16:07 -0400, (Wietse Venema) wrote: According statistics at nexen.net, PHP4 is now 68% of the installed base (8 years of deployment) and PHP5 is 32% (almost 4 years). The lesson I draw from this is that a major release every

[PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 == PHP 6?

2008-04-11 Thread Ryan Panning
I have been wondering the answer to this question for a while now. A LOT of stuff has been backported from PHP 6 to PHP 5.3. So much in fact, why don't you just call PHP 5.3 version 6? What major new features are left for PHP 6? The big one I can think of is unicode support and dropping some

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 == PHP 6?

2008-04-11 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
On 11.04.2008, at 21:30, Ryan Panning wrote: I have been wondering the answer to this question for a while now. A LOT of stuff has been backported from PHP 6 to PHP 5.3. So much in fact, why don't you just call PHP 5.3 version 6? What major new features are left for PHP 6? The big one I

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 == PHP 6?

2008-04-11 Thread Ryan Panning
Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: Native unicode is not big enough for you? regards, Lukas If you're looking for good PR and reviews, no. I think if you have very limited new features, the people writing reviews are going to say PHP 6 doesn't have much new and not worth the upgrade. IMO Honestly,

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 == PHP 6?

2008-04-11 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
On 11.04.2008, at 21:41, Ryan Panning wrote: Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: Native unicode is not big enough for you? regards, Lukas If you're looking for good PR and reviews, no. I think if you have very limited new features, the people writing reviews are going to say PHP 6 doesn't have much

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 == PHP 6?

2008-04-11 Thread Wietse Venema
Lukas Kahwe Smith: On 11.04.2008, at 21:41, Ryan Panning wrote: Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: Native unicode is not big enough for you? regards, Lukas If you're looking for good PR and reviews, no. I think if you have very limited new features, the people writing reviews are going to

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 == PHP 6?

2008-04-11 Thread Johannes Schlüter
Hi, On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 16:07 -0400, (Wietse Venema) wrote: According statistics at nexen.net, PHP4 is now 68% of the installed base (8 years of deployment) and PHP5 is 32% (almost 4 years). The lesson I draw from this is that a major release every couple years would heavily fragment the

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 == PHP 6?

2008-04-11 Thread Wietse Venema
Johannes Schl?ter: Hi, On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 16:07 -0400, (Wietse Venema) wrote: According statistics at nexen.net, PHP4 is now 68% of the installed base (8 years of deployment) and PHP5 is 32% (almost 4 years). The lesson I draw from this is that a major release every couple years

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 == PHP 6?

2008-04-11 Thread Antony Dovgal
On 12.04.2008 00:07, Wietse Venema wrote: According statistics at nexen.net, PHP4 is now 68% of the installed base (8 years of deployment) and PHP5 is 32% (almost 4 years). The lesson I draw from this is that a major release every couple years would heavily fragment the installed base, and

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 == PHP 6?

2008-04-11 Thread Antony Dovgal
On 11.04.2008 23:30, Ryan Panning wrote: I have been wondering the answer to this question for a while now. A LOT of stuff has been backported from PHP 6 to PHP 5.3. So much in fact, why don't you just call PHP 5.3 version 6? What major new features are left for PHP 6? The big one I can think