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What happened to PHP 6?

by Bahamut 12y ago

michaelchisari 12y ago
It was a no-go. There was a lot of difficulties in getting it out the door, so I'm guessing they're pushing on with PHP7 to get rid of any social/political baggage that comes with the 6 release.
- jmspring 12y ago
  Were there cascading problems to word press, Drupal, etc?
McGlockenshire 12y ago
Here's a slide deck postmortem: http://www.slideshare.net/andreizm/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-what-happened-to-unicode-and-php-6 http://www.slideshare.net/andreizm/the-good-the-bad-and-the-... tl;dr: They made some bad decisions about Unicode and everyone got burned out. They skipped 6 because 7 contains none of the Unicode changes and didn't want to confuse people.
leeoniya 12y ago
the non-unicode bits slated for 6.0 got rolled into 5.4, which was a pretty messy release given the extreme conservatism they adhere to even for major version changes.
brvs 12y ago
It's out being almost as successful as Perl6 and Python3 :-) e: Actually wasn't there a blog post posted to HN suggesting Perl skip to 7 too?
- esaym 12y ago
  Indeed: http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/02/perl-7.html http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/02/perl-7.html http://www.slideshare.net/andy.sh/perl7-light http://www.slideshare.net/andy.sh/perl7-light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_8bjsimLsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_8bjsimLsk
- eCa 12y ago
  The suggestion was that a future release of Perl5 should be named Perl7. Perl6 is a "spunky little sister"[1] to Perl5, not the next evolution of Perl. [1] http://perl6.org http://perl6.org
aikah 12y ago
Politics. It should have been called PHP6. But to "avoid confusion" they skipped that number,which of course leads to more confusion.
Tegran 12y ago
If you do a Google search for "PHP6 Book" you'll see why they had to rename it: https://www.google.com/#q=php6+book https://www.google.com/#q=php6+book Basically a lot of authors thought they'd get 'ahead of the game' and publish PHP6 books very early. If a 'real' PHP6 was released now, there would be confusion.
alphonse23 12y ago
This was exactly what I was going to ask.... reading these comments makes me dislike php even more...

What happened to PHP 6?

by Bahamut 12y ago

What happened to PHP 6?

It was a no-go. There was a lot of difficulties in getting it out the door, so I'm guessing they're pushing on with PHP7 to get rid of any social/political baggage that comes with the 6 release.

jmspring 12y ago
Were there cascading problems to word press, Drupal, etc?

McGlockenshire 12y ago

Here's a slide deck postmortem: http://www.slideshare.net/andreizm/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-what-happened-to-unicode-and-php-6 http://www.slideshare.net/andreizm/the-good-the-bad-and-the-... tl;dr: They made some bad decisions about Unicode and everyone got burned out. They skipped 6 because 7 contains none of the Unicode changes and didn't want to confuse people.

leeoniya 12y ago

the non-unicode bits slated for 6.0 got rolled into 5.4, which was a pretty messy release given the extreme conservatism they adhere to even for major version changes.

brvs 12y ago

It's out being almost as successful as Perl6 and Python3 :-) e: Actually wasn't there a blog post posted to HN suggesting Perl skip to 7 too?

esaym 12y ago
Indeed: http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/02/perl-7.html http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2013/02/perl-7.html http://www.slideshare.net/andy.sh/perl7-light http://www.slideshare.net/andy.sh/perl7-light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_8bjsimLsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_8bjsimLsk
eCa 12y ago
The suggestion was that a future release of Perl5 should be named Perl7. Perl6 is a "spunky little sister"[1] to Perl5, not the next evolution of Perl. [1] http://perl6.org http://perl6.org

aikah 12y ago

Politics. It should have been called PHP6. But to "avoid confusion" they skipped that number,which of course leads to more confusion.

Tegran 12y ago

If you do a Google search for "PHP6 Book" you'll see why they had to rename it: https://www.google.com/#q=php6+book https://www.google.com/#q=php6+book Basically a lot of authors thought they'd get 'ahead of the game' and publish PHP6 books very early. If a 'real' PHP6 was released now, there would be confusion.

alphonse23 12y ago

This was exactly what I was going to ask.... reading these comments makes me dislike php even more...