that's totally off topic... but we have no idea yet when will be php
6, or whatsoever.
However next is in around a year :)
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Kris Craig <[email protected]> wrote:
> From the timelines I've seen floating around, I was under the impression
> that the next one would be 5.5, followed by 5.6, etc. PHP 6 is at least a
> few years off according to every projection I've seen.
>
> --Kris
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Ferenc Kovacs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 1:33 AM, David Soria Parra <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi internals,
>> >
>> > just a heads up. The PHP_5_4 branch is open for commits again.
>> >
>> > - David
>> >
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>> On a somehow related topic:
>> Now that we have 5.4 out, I have a question:
>> Do we know what will be the next major release?
>> If we want to follow the releaseprocess RFC, I think it would be nice to
>> think about whether we plan to roll out a major or a minor version next.
>> By the RFC, we can't do such changes to the language as we did with
>> 5.2->5.3 or 5.3->5.4, because userland BC breaks aren't allowed.
>> So I can see two way to address this:
>> If we can agree upon the next version number beforehand, and we decide that
>> we will go with the major release (be that php 6 or 7, whatever), we don't
>> to do anything right now, we can branch the version from trunk/master, when
>> the time comes.
>> If we can't agree upon the next version number, or we agree upon that there
>> will be an 5.5 version, I think it would make sense to create a branch for
>> it ASAP, so there is place (trunk/master) for the approved but backward
>> incompatible changes, and people don't have to hold patches.
>> What do you think?
>>
>> --
>> Ferenc Kovács
>> @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
>>
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