Hi! > On 12 Dec 2014, at 19:40, Zeev Suraski <z...@zend.com> wrote: > >> If not : we'll happen having 3 active versions (5.6 , 5.7 and 7.0) and one >> sec- >> fix only (5.5) , *this is something we don't want* , because we have the >> feeling that it is too much pain to maintain so many versions alive. > > It's worse than that. Since the PHP 7 timeline was already approved and > must be a working assumption, introducing a 1yr delay for 5.7 is out of the > question. That means that working on PHP 5.7 would require us to work on > two upcoming content releases (with new features and substantial changes) > simultaneously, which IIRC is both unprecedented and a bad idea given our > limited resources. In my opinion, we should definitely focus all of our > resources and bandwidth on getting 7.0 out the door. 7.0 is strategic. 5.7 > is tactical.
I must disagree: 5.7 would only be trivially different from 5.6 (deprecations), the effort involved is only as much as continuing to maintain 5.6, and we have to do that anyway. So there’s no problem with working on both. Thanks! -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
