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Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 17:58:55 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Hold off 5.4
From: jmertic@php.net (John Mertic)

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Christopher Jones
<christopher.jones@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/26/2010 11:15 AM, Zeev Suraski wrote:
>>
>> 3. The motivation to skip 6 doesn't stem from marketing at all. =C2=A0Th=
e main
>> motivation is that there's a VERY concrete perception amongst many users
>> about what PHP 6 is. =C2=A0It's unlikely that PHP 6 will actually be tha=
t.
>> =C2=A0Skipping this version makes perfect sense from just about any POV =
I can
>> think of. =C2=A0That's actually one thing I do feel more strongly about =
- we
>> should probably not reuse the version number 6.0 for something that's
>> completely different than what we've been talking about for several year=
s,
>> whether it's now or anytime in the future.
>
> Users aware of PHP 6's unicode intentions will assume PHP 7 is a superset=
 of
> PHP 6 and therefore has unicode. =C2=A0So skipping the number "6" won't r=
esolve
> any user confusion.

I think the unicode debacle will always give user's confusion,
especially since there's many many PHP 6 books on bookshelves that
speak of it. I think it's better to recognize what has happened with
PHP 6, be honest to the community about what happened and why, and
move on as best as we can.

John Mertic
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