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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:39:40 +0200
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Name of Next Release of PHP
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote:
>
> On 7 Jul 2014, at 13:19, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am skeptical on bigint in the engine given what is possible now in
>> gmp. But yes, phpng is also a problem as it creates a total new code
>> base and barely blocks any other improvements. Why? Except that bigint
>> thing, I do not see many people trying to add stuff based on phpng at
>> this point, it is a moving target and will move a lot in the next
>> months as well. But this is a topic for another thread, this one being
>> about the version number and this exact RFC.
>
> The problem is that people who want to add stuff for PHP 6 feel they have to add it to phpng, because if phpng is to be PHP 6, then it would need to be based off that branch.

Exactly, and for what I see, it is run forward and at some point we
will see a post asking to replace master with phpng and use it as base
for php6. To me this would be a bad thing, but this is the direction
phpng is taking.


-- 
Pierre

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