Following that logic, they will expect the next major version number, whatever it is, to have Unicode. Nothing can be done about that apart from telling the world it won't, including it in, or let them find out for themselves...
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- The motivation to skip 6 doesn't stem from marketing at all. The main motivation is that there's a VERY concrete perception amongst many users about what PHP 6 is. It's unlikely that PHP 6 will actually be that. Skipping this version makes perfect sense from just about any POV I can think of. That's actually one thing I do feel more strongly about - we should probably not reuse the version number 6.0 for something that's completely different than what we've been talking about for several years, whether it's now or anytime in the future.
Users aware of PHP 6's unicode intentions will assume PHP 7 is a superset of
PHP 6 and therefore has unicode. So skipping the number "6" won't resolve
any user confusion.Chris
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Following that logic, they will expect the next major version number, whatever it is, to have Unicode. Nothing can be done about that apart from telling the world it won't, including it in, or let them find out for themselves...
If we decide the next major version doesn't have unicode then we will
have to manage/expect some community confusion. This will happen
regardless of designated version number.
Chris
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James Butler
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- The motivation to skip 6 doesn't stem from marketing at all. The main motivation is that there's a VERY concrete perception amongst many users about what PHP 6 is. It's unlikely that PHP 6 will actually be that. Skipping this version makes perfect sense from just about any POV I can think of. That's actually one thing I do feel more strongly about - we should probably not reuse the version number 6.0 for something that's completely different than what we've been talking about for several years, whether it's now or anytime in the future.
Users aware of PHP 6's unicode intentions will assume PHP 7 is a superset of
PHP 6 and therefore has unicode. So skipping the number "6" won't resolve
any user confusion.Chris
--
Email: christopher.jones@oracle.com
Tel: +1 650 506 8630
Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/--
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Email: christopher.jones@oracle.com
Tel: +1 650 506 8630
Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/