Matthias N. wrote: > I'm not interested in "marketing versions" and my customers have no > real idea what symfony is at all.. ;-) > For me it doesn't matter if the next release is 1.1 or 1.5 - it only > matters what I can do with it. And that is already VERY IMPRESSIVE! > If the new helpers / form / validation system is as half as good as > the enhancements I've already seen then I will buy 10 books. ;-) > > Regards, > Matthias > > > On 26 Sep., 14:03, "Francois Zaninotto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > project.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > > > > The main idea is that it does not hurt to be 1.5 and it can only bring benefit by making newcomers think why it is 1.5 and then they can see at all the new features and the changes to the core and it will make sense. The idea is to bring peoples attention to the enhancements. I remember comments before I started working with Symfony when it was 0.63 or something and the comments were that Symfony is more stable and feature rich than many 1.0+ frameworks. There are still many PHP developers not using a framework and many are looking for alternatives and, yes, more people using it more progress, more innovation, more plugins... less work all of us have to do in the end :)
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