Lukas Kahwe Smith:
>
> On 11.04.2008, at 21:41, Ryan Panning wrote:
> > Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> >> Native unicode is not big enough for you?
> >> regards,
> >> Lukas
> >
> > If you're looking for good PR and reviews, no. I think if you have
> > very limited new features, the people writing reviews are going to
> > say PHP 6 doesn't have much new and not worth the upgrade. IMO
> >
> > Honestly, I think PHP 5.3 is worthy of being called PHP 6. There are
> > certainly enough new features.
>
> Marketing is not our concern, and trust me .. native unicode is enough
> to warrant a new major version because of the internal changes.
So call it PHP 7.
Just kidding :) More seriously, the question is how frequently you
want to confront the user base with major changes that inevitably
break compatibility, and suffer delays in adoption of several years.
According statistics at nexen.net, PHP4 is now 68% of the installed
base (8 years of deployment) and PHP5 is 32% (almost 4 years). The
lesson I draw from this is that a major release every couple years
would heavily fragment the installed base, and complicate support.
Wietse
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