I think that skipping to a major version is a good idea. Two key reasons I think that:
1. It'll help us break the evil spell of the 6 version number. Honestly, I'm not so certain we'll have major engine rewrites the size of what we've seen in PHP 3/4/5 going forward. Sure, I have a track record for saying that in the past before PHP 5, but this time I *really* think we've reached an evolutionary stage :). Even if I'm wrong and we'd have a major rewrite happening, I don't think any of us is seeing it any time soon. 2. Maybe it's time to break the notion that a major number change means major breakage. Sometimes (like in Google Chrome), a major version can bring nothing but a few new features and significantly improve performance, without any additional pain. Not saying we should go to the extreme of releasing a major version every other week, but once a year or once every 18 months is a very reasonable frequency. Can't say I feel strongly about it, but I have a feeling that unless we change our versioning scheme a slight bit, we'll be stuck in the 5.x realm for a very long time (and I do think it actually reflects badly on the way the language is perceived to some degree). My 2c. Zeev > -----Original Message----- > From: Johannes Schlüter [mailto:johan...@schlueters.de] > Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 7:55 PM > To: Andi Gutmans > Cc: Jani Taskinen; da...@php.net; PHP Internals > Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: Hold off 5.4 > > On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 17:39 +0000, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > This is no different in the Java world, C++ as it matured or some > > other technologies. > > Java is currently at 1.6. (and 6 in Marketing) :-) > C++ went from ISO/IEC 14882:1998 to ISO/IEC 14882:2003 and is waiting > for C++0x, whatever the actual name will be. > > No good examples ;-) > > johannes > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.php.net/unsub.php
