On 12/02/2010 11:23 AM, James Butler wrote:
Following that logic, they will expect the next major version number, whatever
it is, to have Unicode. Nothing can be done about that apart from telling the
world it won't, including it in, or let them find out for themselves...
If we decide the next major version doesn't have unicode then we will
have to manage/expect some community confusion. This will happen
regardless of designated version number.
Chris
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On 2 Dec 2010, at 19:02, "Christopher Jones"<christopher.jo...@oracle.com>
wrote:
On 11/26/2010 11:15 AM, Zeev Suraski wrote:
3. The motivation to skip 6 doesn't stem from marketing at all. The main
motivation is that there's a VERY concrete perception amongst many users about
what PHP 6 is. It's unlikely that PHP 6 will actually be that. Skipping this
version makes perfect sense from just about any POV I can think of. That's
actually one thing I do feel more strongly about - we should probably not reuse
the version number 6.0 for something that's completely different than what
we've been talking about for several years, whether it's now or anytime in the
future.
Users aware of PHP 6's unicode intentions will assume PHP 7 is a superset of
PHP 6 and therefore has unicode. So skipping the number "6" won't resolve
any user confusion.
Chris
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