On 03/31/2010 03:13 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Philip Olson wrote:
Hello everyone,
As most of us know, PHP 6 has disappeared. It used to be 5.3+unicode
but now it's unknown and certainly not worth mentioning in the PHP
manual (at least, as a version that introduces features/changes).
With that said, let's talk about what to do. First:
$ egrep --exclude=\*.svn\* -r -n "PHP 6" * |wc -l
> 105
Or, better than grep ;)
$ ack "PHP 6" * |wc -l
> 105
Around 13 are in versions.xml, and 51 in ini.xml. We must handle this as a
case-by-basis because not all of these features are unicode specific, and even
those that are may [or may not] be in the next PHP version for all we know...
nobody really knows. Our options:
(a) Remove or comment out the docs (a sad thought)
(b) Make guesses as to which PHP version they'll be in (5.4 is likely for
many, but easily wrong)
(c) Move them to an appendix (doesn't feel right)
(d) Write "Future PHP Release" or similar until we know (seems okay)
(e) ...
I lean towards (d) for most cases. Thoughts?
call it "PHP NG", with a huge early disclaimer that you're not sure
what the number will be.
It's not clear if/how these features are going to be re-included.
I'd prefer to see them commented out. Displaying mis-information is
harmful to the overall PHP project.
Chris
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