Den 2015-12-08 kl. 16:00, skrev Adam Howard:
The EOL (end of life) date does influence people. True, not everyone will
simply jump ship upon EOL. But it is still has a significant enough
influence on adoption and urgency in general. Especially toward new
development projects or new releases in general that are less likely to
code with support for EOL products (overall). There is an influencing
factor that cannot be realistically denied without avoiding common sense.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Johannes Schlüter <johan...@schlueters.de>
wrote:
On Sun, 2015-12-06 at 15:17 -0800, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
Sufficient for what? It is a hard fact that people still run 5.3
version. In fact, 2/3 of sites run EOLed versions. You can always say
they have only themselves to blame, but then I'm not sure what
"sufficient" means. Unless adoption patterns change drastically, by the
end of 2017 most people will not be running PHP 7. That's not something
we can realistically change (unless you have some way of changing those
patterns we didn't try yet or they change by themselves somehow). Thus,
our choice lies only in whether we support this majority of users in
some way or say "you are on your own now, we don't care about you
anymore".
People who don't update aren't really relevant for a lifetime
discussion. It doesn't really matter if they don't update to 5.6 or if
they don't update to 7.0. Especially if they don't even update from
5.3.x to 5.3.(x+n).
johannes
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Actually our ISP is now offering PHP 7.0 in their production environment
for all
customers. So the 5.6 support timeline was not relevant in that case.
For us as
application developers I'm not sure it matters so much since we today
runs on
an older PHP version. The business case going for 7.0 is so good that I
see no
point going for 5.6 and then 7.0.
Regards //Björn
PS Of course for a larger organisation then us it has another impact,
but the
tentative cost savings and performance gains with 7.0 is a strong
driving force.
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