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To: Jocelyn Fournier <jocelyn.fournier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Name of Next Release of PHP
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds)


On 6 Jul 2014, at 16:12, Jocelyn Fournier <jocelyn.fournier@gmail.com> =
wrote:

> It's my first post in this list, and wanted to share my external point =
of view, with a parallel with the MySQL world.

Welcome to PHP! :)

> MySQL 6 was alpha in 2007 and finally was never released.
> So far its name has never been reused (instead we had MySQL 5.6 and =
5.7 to avoid confusion, and there are also books about PHP 6 / MySQL 6)
> Even on the MariaDB side, they bumped up the version to 10.0 to avoid =
confusion (and because it was not based on MySQL 5.6).

Similarly, ECMAScript 4, which was to be the replacement for ECMAScript =
3, was abandoned and skipped, with ECMAScript 5 replacing it and =
ECMAScript 6/Harmony continuing it in spirit. There is some precedent =
for this.

> There are quite a few tutorials and reference about PHP 6 on the web, =
it would be misleading to have something completely different, but with =
the same name as the "old" PHP 6. However I'm not convinced "7" is the =
right choice, perhaps a radical change in version number would be better =
?

Well, 7 is a nice number. But yes, a more radical change might be =
better. How about PHP 14, after the year? PHP Loxodonta, a genus of =
elephants? PHP 14.mm, where mm is the month, following the Ubuntu =
month/year scheme?

However, all other options only seem to have fringe support at the =
moment, so a binary 6/7 vote is optimal, unless you can find a name =
everyone can agree on. Keeping with 6 or 7 means we stick to our tried =
and tested naming scheme, too. I think that=92d be for the best.

Side note: another thought comes to me now that just skipping 6 and =
going to 7 makes little sense in a way, as 7 isn=92t the successor to 6, =
it is the second successor to 5, the first (the old PHP 6) having been =
abandoned.
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Andrea Faulds
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