I don't think the version # makes that much of a difference, but rather what is in it. That said, people have made a good point that jumping to something like 7, would allow us to skip the baggage associated with PHP6, which seems like a fairly compelling argument to me.
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Zeev Suraski <z...@zend.com> wrote: >> I think that skipping to a major version is a good idea. > > It is appealing but not a good idea. I think it is better to get 5.4 > with the features we like in it and then consider a major version. > There are quite a few things that we could add or changethat would > justify a major version (without opening one of our pandora's boxes > right now :). > > As of versioning scheme, yes, a clear and documented one is the way. > Anything we can add to the RFC to clarify this would be welcome. Maybe > start a new thread, it is getting hard to follow each topic. > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
