Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:50522 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 41591 invoked from network); 25 Nov 2010 12:47:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Nov 2010 12:47:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=jani.taskinen@iki.fi; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=jani.taskinen@iki.fi; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain iki.fi designates 213.243.153.185 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: jani.taskinen@iki.fi X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.243.153.185 filtteri2.pp.htv.fi Received: from [213.243.153.185] ([213.243.153.185:59699] helo=filtteri2.pp.htv.fi) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id ED/24-17569-4CA5EEC4 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:47:01 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtteri2.pp.htv.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id A28668BBAE; Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:46:57 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at pp.htv.fi Received: from smtp4.welho.com ([213.243.153.38]) by localhost (filtteri2.pp.htv.fi [213.243.153.185]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 0mKe3NNKny4R; Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:46:57 +0200 (EET) Received: from [10.1.200.105] (erikeeper.office.crasman.fi [83.145.215.158]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp4.welho.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 814105BC012; Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:46:57 +0200 (EET) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:46:57 +0200 Cc: Davey Shafik , PHP Internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: <73.C4.59959.876BBEC4@pb1.pair.com> <3EA67EA2-A9B1-4DFB-8A30-05B37BCA313B@iki.fi> To: Patrick ALLAERT X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Hold off 5.4 From: jani.taskinen@iki.fi (Jani Taskinen) On Nov 25, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Patrick ALLAERT wrote: > 2010/11/25 Jani Taskinen : >> Who says it has to be 5.4? People seem to be a bit fixated on the = version there. >=20 > I'd like to know too... >=20 >> Major BC breaks just means the version released from trunk is 6.0. = And it's just a number. Big number, but still just a number. >=20 > Well, such a change tends to create a big buzz, without mentioning > stuff like certifications, trainings,... This is a joke, right? > We should avoid creating a virtual PHP 6.0 which will contain all the > BC stuff while all features appears in 5.x. > By doing so we will keep some shit in 5.x forever and won't have > anything appealing enough to migrate to 6.0 ..or have something really new and interesting in PHP 7.0.0. The big = version number change is reserved for BC changing stuff, not just for = "fancy new stuff". --Jani