On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:01 AM, 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.
I think the unicode debacle will always give user's confusion, especially since there's many many PHP 6 books on bookshelves that speak of it. I think it's better to recognize what has happened with PHP 6, be honest to the community about what happened and why, and move on as best as we can. John Mertic jmer...@gmail.com | http://jmertic.wordpress.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
