Is it just unusually cold weather for this time of year or did the hell
just freeze over? :-o
Couldn't agree more on both points and I had the same thoughts about
getting stuck with 5.x releases forever. And not getting any release out
soon from trunk if this thread drags on too long.
Maybe even skip 6 like Andi proposed and declare that from now even
major versions are never released. Only prime numbers count. 7 is a
prime number and it's the lucky one too. ;)
--Jani
p.s. Somehow this reminds me of one particular discussion in around 2001
about the versioning scheme.. :D
25.11.2010 23:56, Zeev Suraski wrote:
I think that skipping to a major version is a good idea.
Two key reasons I think that:
1. It'll help us break the evil spell of the 6 version number.
Honestly, I'm not so certain we'll have major engine rewrites the
size of what we've seen in PHP 3/4/5 going forward. Sure, I have a
track record for saying that in the past before PHP 5, but this time
I *really* think we've reached an evolutionary stage :). Even if I'm
wrong and we'd have a major rewrite happening, I don't think any of
us is seeing it any time soon.
2. Maybe it's time to break the notion that a major number change
means major breakage. Sometimes (like in Google Chrome), a major
version can bring nothing but a few new features and significantly
improve performance, without any additional pain. Not saying we
should go to the extreme of releasing a major version every other
week, but once a year or once every 18 months is a very reasonable
frequency.
Can't say I feel strongly about it, but I have a feeling that unless
we change our versioning scheme a slight bit, we'll be stuck in the
5.x realm for a very long time (and I do think it actually reflects
badly on the way the language is perceived to some degree).
My 2c.
Zeev
-----Original Message----- From: Johannes Schlüter
[mailto:johan...@schlueters.de] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010
7:55 PM To: Andi Gutmans Cc: Jani Taskinen; da...@php.net; PHP
Internals Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: Hold off 5.4
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 17:39 +0000, Andi Gutmans wrote:
This is no different in the Java world, C++ as it matured or
some other technologies.
Java is currently at 1.6. (and 6 in Marketing) :-) C++ went from
ISO/IEC 14882:1998 to ISO/IEC 14882:2003 and is waiting for C++0x,
whatever the actual name will be.
No good examples ;-)
johannes
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