On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: > 2010/11/25 Zeev Suraski <z...@zend.com>: > > 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. > > I also think that its appealing to skip to version 6 to break that > spell once and for all.
I think it's a bad idea. We'd just be scaring users because "new major version" = break. We're not breaking a thing (or atleast, try not to). And think about distrbutions that'd want to wait til 6.1 or something. We should reserve major versions for BC breaks. Just like we've always done. I don't see the point of changing this, as it feels to me that you just want to change it because you want to change it. Now, *if*, we would introduce breaking changes, skipping 6 might be a good plan (and go straight to 7), but I don't see any sort of compelling reason why you'd want to go to 6/7 now. Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug
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