On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 21:08 +0800, Adam Harvey wrote: > To be honest, Debian isn't really the distribution I'm worried about. > Ondřej does good work, and Debian Wheezy has PHP 5.4 and isn't miles > off, it seems. > > RHEL and Ubuntu are mostly the ones I'm thinking of here — RHEL 7 is > supposed to be out in the second half of next year, but history (and > my own experience both in supporting users and dealing with vendors) > suggests that RHEL users are slow to upgrade. Ubuntu won't have > another LTS release until 2014.
All those are interested in are "critical"/"security" fixes. Besides that the version is frozen. So for those I don't see a benefit to continue providing unrelated fixes. > > Please also mind: Most bugs exist for years, most are older than 5.3. If > > they lived with those on 5.2 they are no stoppers to migrate away from > > there. The biggest category of 5.3-only bugs is around gc. PHP 5.3 won't > > stop working and for operations there is no big difference after > > February 2013 ... rather less risk of getting bug fixes which, by > > accident, change behavior. Therefore after February 2013 users updating > > need less validation when updating. > > All true as well. And as I said, I'm not really gunning for full > support to be extended (beyond 5.5.0 final, anyway). > > I think the idea of being flexible on this is fine so long as there's > an eventual hard and fast date announced some time next year. Let's > see how the distro situation shakes out, and how the charm offensive > in the first half of next year goes in terms of getting users to > upgrade to 5.4 and 5.5. :) I just wanted to flag it, mostly. ... and getting this discussion is why I sent the mail out. johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
