Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-QA] Naming changes. From: Sterling Hughes (sterling <email protected>)
Date: 12/28/00

> Is there any special reason so many people want to move to 4.1 just like
> that? :) A miniversion is fine for this type of change. We're fine at 4.0.
>
> So far, changes in the major version number were due to serious
> architecture changes. Changes in the minor version number were planned
> (for 3.1) but never actually executed, and they also involved architecture
> changes, but not major ones. Mostly everything else falls in the
> miniversion (3rd digit) category, we'll have dozens of those in the future.
>

What can I say, 4.1 just sounds cooler... ;-)

Actually, I think that shattering compatibility like this should be a minor
version number (at least, perhaps even a major version number, hey, everybody,
gear up for PHP 5.0 :).

-sterling 

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