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Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:04:38 +0200
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Subject: Re: PHP 5.5 or 6.0
From: pierre@dotgeek.org (Pierre-Alain Joye)

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:41:07 +0200 (CEST)
derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) wrote:

> Now that we branched it's time to rename HEAD to something else
> than 5.1 in order to have different version numbers. Although the
> name PHP 5.5 was mentioned before, I do think we should call it
> PHP 6.0. As the Unicode support is quite a drastic change. Going
> with PHP 6.0 also allows us to be a little less strict with
> breaking BC in the cases where that might be useful for the
> Unicode support.
> 
> I took the freedom to commit this change to CVS, as I needed
> already different version numbers for the different versions of
> PHP that I install locally. If discussion results that we need to
> rename it to something else, that's ofcourse perfectly fine.

I have no special oppinions on php 5.5 or 6.0.

But I have some about what we will do in php 5.x (without unicode,
namespace), and 6.0.

I like to see once that we clearly and loudly define what we want
in or not. So I may waste less time than before.

--Pierre