Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:36978 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 98921 invoked from network); 12 Apr 2008 00:29:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 12 Apr 2008 00:29:48 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=tony@daylessday.org; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=tony@daylessday.org; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain daylessday.org designates 89.208.40.236 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: tony@daylessday.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 89.208.40.236 mail.daylessday.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [89.208.40.236] ([89.208.40.236:58061] helo=daylessday.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 7A/28-52887-B7200084 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:29:48 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.34] (ppp91-76-68-47.pppoe.mtu-net.ru [91.76.68.47]) by daylessday.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 333B66400FE; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:29:44 +0400 (MSD) Message-ID: <48000275.9090008@daylessday.org> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:29:41 +0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ryan Panning CC: internals@lists.php.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3 == PHP 6? From: tony@daylessday.org (Antony Dovgal) On 11.04.2008 23:30, Ryan Panning wrote: > I have been wondering the answer to this question for a while now. A LOT > of stuff has been backported from PHP 6 to PHP 5.3. So much in fact, why > don't you just call PHP 5.3 version 6? > > What major new features are left for PHP 6? The big one I can think of > is unicode support and dropping some depreciated stuff. Yes, I have > looked at the wiki todo list for 6. > > I'm not trying to start anything here, just want to know why not just > call it PHP 6? Because it's just 5.2 + some additions and PHP6 (HEAD) is something entirely different? Did you even try to compare the codebase? -- Wbr, Antony Dovgal