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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:56:32 +0100
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To: Stefan Marr <php@stefan-marr.de>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Next major version must be 7 (Lessons learned from the ECMAScript committee)
From: mls@pooteeweet.org (Lukas Kahwe Smith)


On 13.03.2010, at 22:52, Stefan Marr wrote:

>=20
> On 13 Mar 2010, at 22:43, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
>=20
>> Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>>> No, not ok.  We will call the next release whatever we like.  People =
who
>>> have written books or articles about PHP 6 inferring they knew what =
the
>>> final state of PHP 6 would be were misguided.  We never got to the =
point
>>> of a final feature set much less a release date.
>>=20
>> +1
>>=20
>> Authors that wrote, publishers that published and readers that bought
>> books on PHP 6 need to be ... punished ;-)
> Is that wise and well-considered or something the community might =
regret in the long run?


Nobody needs to be punished and I think Rasmus stayed clear of such =
words for a reason. The name of the next version is not really all that =
relevant more if the next version will be a minor bump (aka x.y+1) or a =
major (aka x+1.y).

regards,
Lukas Kahwe Smith
mls@pooteeweet.org