On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Endijs Lisovskis <[email protected]> wrote:
> MariaDB jumped from 5.5 directly to version 10 and as far as I know no one
> is confused. PHP is not the same thing, however skipping a number is not
> such a big deal. Plus it will take ages for anyone to really start using
> PHP Next (be it 6 or 7). By that time everyone will know that 10 years old
> books are not the ones you would like to learn from. As far as I see it,
> PHP 6 was failed experiment. However PHP 7 could be shiny thing that makes
> real difference in our lives. I know that i'm not from Internals and I do
> not get any saying in this. However I'm "regular developer" and maybe you
> are interested in opinion of such people too.
>
> After all, if you do not know what to do - ask. Put voting in php.net and
> ask *people* what they want and what they think. Will they be confused?
> Will they not? Is 6 or 7 better? Communicate.
>
>
In that case, why not just do that for every PHP release, then? We can
just do away with a sane, logical versioning system altogether and go with
whatever the focus groups like best. And who says they have to be numeric
at all? Let's call the next release PHP Vista. That has a nice ring to
it. Then we could tie it to the year call the next one PHP 2016. Then we
can be retro and call the next version PHP 7, even though it's the 8th
release, because the marketing folks think 7 "just works better".
Man, this'll make it especially fun for developers trying to require a
minimum version in their code.... Yep, that's much less confusing.
--Kris