"As the so-called "Symfony 1.1" is not a revolution of Symfony's core"

This is quite the contrary. A LOT has changed in the core but users 
won't have to change a lot of things in their applications to make it 
work with symfony 1.1 (most of the changes are automated by the symfony 
project:upgrade task anyway).

But, you're also right, because this new release works with the same 
logic as far as the controller/filters/... works. So, no major changes 
here. symfony 2.0 will have major changes in the way we implement the 
Controller pattern (see my symfonyCamp presentation for more information).

Here is another major reason why I think 1.5 is good compromise:

- we are committed to provide support for symfony 1.0
- symfony 1.1/1.5/whatever is "just" a transition release (like 0.6.3 in 
the past)
- symfony 2.0 will be a release that will be supported for a long period 
of time.

Fabien

Xavier Lacot wrote:
> Hi François,
> 
> I fully agree with you, even though I fear that some people might be
> frightened of BC breaks. Wouldn't a version called "1.5" be a good
> compromise ? Other successful open-source projects have used this number
> for major improvements (Mozilla Firefox, for instance). As the so-called
> "Symfony 1.1" is not a revolution of Symfony's core, keeping the major
> number "1" sounds to me the best solution.
> 
> xavier
> 
> Francois Zaninotto a écrit :
>> Hi list,
>>
>> When I look at the trunk version of symfony, I see a lot of new and
>> exciting stuff, among which:
>>
>> - New CLI task system
>> - New plugin system
>> - New mixin/event system
>> - Improved caching system
>> - Total decoupling of objects
>> - Better exceptions
>> - Better routing
>> - Better logging
>> - Better storage
>> - More factories
>> - Less singletons
>> - I probably forgot some
>> - And many, many small improvements.
>>
>> All in all, the question about symfony 1.1 is more "what hasn't changed"
>> rather that "what has changed". The best part is that all that has
>> changed almost never breaks BC, which means that existing applications
>> will most of the time be able to take advantage of the new features.
>>
>> This leads me to a marketing concern: Should we call the next release
>> "symfony 1.1" or "symfony 2.0"? With all the new stuff in there, calling
>> it 1.1 would really be a poor choice (especially if you compare it with
>> what rails put in its 1.1...), spoiling the enhancements. On the other
>> hand, calling it symfony 2.0 might frighten people, especially BC wise.
>>
>> We know Fabien has great plans for after this next release, but their
>> version number could very well be 3.0 or 4.0.
>>
>> Last but not least, symfony 1.0 was released eight months ago, and no
>> enhancement was officially published since then. I think symfony
>> deserves a strong version upgrade to show that the development is very
>> active.
>>
>> What are your thoughts on the subject?
>>
>> François
> 


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