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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 14:48:32 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] HEADS UP: 5.4 branch is open again
From: dmgx.michael@gmail.com (Michael Morris)

PHP 6 comes out sometime around 2024 when, at PHP 5.27 Ramus decides
to say, "screw it" - 6.

Sorta like what happened with the Linux Kernel (which was 2.26 FOREVER)

Tongue in cheek remark aside, we need to be cautious about avoiding
using the major version tag (although the stupidity of the browser
programming community isn't the way to go either).  There are
significant differences now between 5.0 and 5.4 functionality, even
though the changes between 5.3 and 5.4 are slight - they do add up.
Linux fell into this trap - the differences between any two
incrementals was tiny, but after 47 of the buggers it was getting
ridiculous to say it was still version 2.26.0 compat, which it wasn't.

At the end of the day version numbers are perception oriented.  If you
never move the major number, people will shift perception to the
second number being the important one, or in the case of Linux the
incremental became the significant one when it shouldn't be.

In my opinion, if PHP NEXT has anything - ANYTHING - on par with 5.4
in scope then the distance between it and 5.0 will have become too
large to justify calling it a 5.5 and it should be called 6.  Fail to
do this and the first number will start being ignored by the community
at large as superfluous., just as the 2.26 part of the Linux version
number had become superfluous before Linux finally bit the bullet and
rolled it over.

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, my vote would be for "PHP Vista"....
>
> --Kris
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Ronald Chmara <ronabop@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > that's totally off topic... but we have no idea yet when will be php
>> > 6, or whatsoever.
>> > However next is in around a year :)
>>
>> "PHPME", "PHPXP", "PHP Feisty Foxbat", "PHP#"....
>>
>> Let's name this bike shed*!
>>
>> -Ronabop
>>
>> *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_Law_of_Triviality
>>