On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Adam Jon Richardson <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Kris Craig <[email protected]> wrote:
> > And when I google "php 7" (in quotes), I get 901,000 results.
>
> Funny :)
>
> Seriously, though, did you compare the result sets? Try viewing the
> context for the "php 6" search. Randomly dig into the results, going
> further into the pages, and I believe you'll see that many of results
> appear to be related to the now-dead branch (I quick viewed up through
> results page 35, where they stopped.) Compare that context with the
> results for "php 7," which appear to be coincidentally proximal
> occurrences of "php" and "7" unrelated to any version.
>
> The point is, there are more than just a few authors that, in your
> words, screwed up. There were many resources focused on the expected
> release, and much of that information is still online, in addition to
> books, podcasts, etc.
>
> Adam
>
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Yes but that was my point: Just because there's a lot of results doesn't
mean they're actually relevant. I just did a quick search for "PHP 6".
After looking through 2 pages of results, I found only one page that
seemed to reference the now-defunct plans for PHP 6. It was dated 2007.
And even then, it made no mention of a set release date; just the usual
stuff about unicode support and misc cleanup.
All the other results in my sample were recent and fell into one of two
categories: Discussion/predictions about what will be coming-up in the
*actual* PHP 6 release and complaining about why it's taking so long for
PHP 6 to come out.
If we suddenly just skip it entirely and go to PHP 7, we're going to have a
shitload of results from people asking, "What ever happened to PHP 6?!" and
why they can't find it anywhere.
--Kris