Re: About PHP6 ...
Good Guy wrote:
The numbering system should continue as it is so that we don't alienate users of
PHP. Why do you guys want to confuse them bu inventing yet another system?
I simply don't understand this argument ... there is no change to any system!
There IS substantial work already on PHP6 and all that it means is that all of that historic work just needs a published release note that says 'Due to problems with the original planning for PHP6 it has been skipped and a clean branch created as PHP7'. That Original PHP6 was not released as planned is well documented?
Then we cherry pick the material on the wiki and elsewhere that is ACTUALLY part of a discussion on PHPNext so that when one searches - even using date filters - one gets a nice clean view of the current discussions. Google has this annoying habit of re-dating early articles when they get published via different routes or quoted in later reviews and today it's still pulling historic miss-information. Since the php website is now reliant on that flawed tool, we have to design around it. This is simply a matter of making a move forward a lot easier to manage given the documented history.
I don't see how that alienates anybody and it will certainly eliminate the pages of dross currently being returned when reviewing material FOR PHPNext. And all the published authors get a clean base to write the replacement books :(
Does anybody actually know just what parts of the original PHP6 roadmap have actually now been back ported to PHP5 anyway? And what is left from the original roadmap that would benefit from review even ten years on? And more important what has been missed or is no longer relevant? I'm still missing just where PHP5 does not handle UTF-8 internally apart from the actual processing of strings?
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