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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 11:00:38 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] HEADS UP: 5.4 branch is open again
From: kris.craig@gmail.com (Kris Craig)

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From the timelines I've seen floating around, I was under the impression
that the next one would be 5.5, followed by 5.6, etc.  PHP 6 is at least a
few years off according to every projection I've seen.

--Kris


On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:33 AM, David Soria Parra <dsp@php.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi internals,
> >
> > just a heads up. The PHP_5_4 branch is open for commits again.
> >
> > - David
> >
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> >
> On a somehow related topic:
> Now that we have 5.4 out, I have a question:
> Do we know what will be the next major release?
> If we want to follow the releaseprocess RFC, I think it would be nice to
> think about whether we plan to roll out a major or a minor version next.
> By the RFC, we can't do such changes to the language as we did with
> 5.2->5.3 or 5.3->5.4, because userland BC breaks aren't allowed.
> So I can see two way to address this:
> If we can agree upon the next version number beforehand, and we decide th=
at
> we will go with the major release (be that php 6 or 7, whatever), we don'=
t
> to do anything right now, we can branch the version from trunk/master, wh=
en
> the time comes.
> If we can't agree upon the next version number, or we agree upon that the=
re
> will be an 5.5 version, I think it would make sense to create a branch fo=
r
> it ASAP, so there is place (trunk/master) for the approved but backward
> incompatible changes, and people don't have to hold patches.
> What do you think?
>
> --
> Ferenc Kov=E1cs
> @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
>

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