I'm also curious to hear whether any participants in this thread do/did support the PHP foundation in any tangible way :D
If you treat it like an LTS provider, perhaps it's time to pay up the LTS support fees? Marco Pivetta https://mastodon.social/@ocramius https://ocramius.github.io/ On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 10:40, Alex Wells <autau...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 6:10 AM Deleu <deleu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I don't want to use those weird stuff, but I'm > > doing the best I can to replace every single line of old code that has > been > > written in an era that "best practices for PHP development" were not what > > you and I know today. > > > > I still do not understand why you're expecting the whole PHP project to put > in enormous efforts to keep the backwards compatibility and solve your > problems (temporarily) instead of you doing so. What's stopping you from > using the last supported PHP version by that codebase and fixing or, worst > case scenario, rewriting it if you wish, while on that (non latest) PHP > version? What causes the desperation to update to the latest PHP? Is it new > features or security fixes, or both? >