Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:75302 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 9872 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2014 12:50:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 7 Jul 2014 12:50:00 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.199 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.199 imap11-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.199] ([192.64.116.199:56259] helo=imap11-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 2A/22-21356-CD09AB35 for ; Mon, 07 Jul 2014 08:21:48 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C7E48800E7; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 08:21:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap11.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap11.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 8t83qpR_Pmu2; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 08:21:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from andreas-air.home (host86-172-51-137.range86-172.btcentralplus.com [86.172.51.137]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0AEFD8800DB; Mon, 7 Jul 2014 08:21:43 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.2\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 13:21:39 +0100 Cc: Lester Caine , PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: <61EEC54E-7B8D-433E-A391-75F8D6A41E79@ajf.me> <650742796f119ed972a688a58e02242b@mail.gmail.com> <53BA8E93.8060708@lsces.co.uk> To: Pierre Joye X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.2) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Name of Next Release of PHP From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 7 Jul 2014, at 13:19, Pierre Joye 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. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/