Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:75987 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 25160 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2014 01:08:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Jul 2014 01:08:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.207 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.207 imap2-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.207] ([192.64.116.207:39910] helo=imap2-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 6E/50-22845-47C50D35 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:08:05 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB8658C007B; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:08:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap2.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id QbLYRt2IK44V; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:08:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.15] (unknown [90.210.122.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6BE328C0075; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:08:03 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 02:08:00 +0100 Cc: internals@lists.php.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <56189D85-6E6B-4BCC-9104-1C08214072EE@ajf.me> References: To: m appu X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Name of Next Release of PHP (again) From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 24 Jul 2014, at 01:47, m appu wrote: > Two quick points on the PHP6/7 discussion: Why aren=92t you responding to the existing RFC discussion? > 1. There is an existing alternative PHP-compatible implementation = called > PH7 available from http://ph7.symisc.net/. This may be very confusing = if > mainline PHP is called PHP 7. Some day there=92s going to be a PHP 7, whether it=92s the PHP NEXT we = mean now or its successor, it can=92t be helped. (Also, it might be a stretch to call PH7 =93PHP-compatible=94, it has = some very big departures from actual PHP.) > 2. People may see the latest version of PHP 7, think that there have = been > massive changes, and delay porting their code to new versions. Well, PHP NEXT probably will have some massive changes in it anyway. Surely =93PHP 6=94 would be just as bad? -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/