On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Brian Moon <br...@moonspot.net> wrote:
> Or, (maybe this is controversial in itself), drop the entire thing. >> >> Until there is in fact, a next major version, what its name will be is >> surely moot, and until there is a GA release (or at the earliest alphas / >> beta test releases), there should be no such thing as a versioned / >> numbered release. >> >> Assuming the above, there is no need to discuss / vote on this now, but in >> 1-3 years or so (depending on who you listen to ;)), and in that time >> frame, shouldn't it simply remain as PHP.next (or some random codename / >> whatever). >> > > As I read this, it occurred to me that naming things before they are > released is how we ended up in this situation to begin with. People started > writing PHP6 books and doing talks at conferences before PHP6 even existed. > What if the same thing happens with PHP7? Or it happens to PHP6 again? > Right now, there is discussion about phpng being php-next. What if that is > rolled in and later found that it was a bad idea? And there are talks and > blog posts about "PHP7" that talk about phpng? > > With Phorum, we skipped version 2 and version 4 because of this issue. We > named them, worked on them, and then decided they were bad directions. > Those numbers were burned. If we had not named them to begin with, we would > not have been in that boat. > > Brian Moon > brianlm...@php.net > http://brian.moonspot.net/ > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > every branch has a version (main/php_version.h), phpng has 5.7.0 (because that is what master had when branched out). there are already some posts which refer to phpng as 5.7 ( http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/2arl1k/php_57_aka_phpng_is_now_nearly_twice_as_fast_as/ for example). so I think that it is a bit naive to think that we can wait until the last minute with coming up with the final release number, plus I think it is better to discuss and get consensus before we have time-pressure to do so. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
