Hi! > EVERYTHING is a barrier to moving your code forward. You tell the mailing > this on a regular basis. > Perhaps you should just migrate your 15+ year old code already and be done > with it?
I would like to note two things here: 1. We have a very diverse community and people have a lot of different needs and use cases. It is inevitable that some of these needs would be radically different from yours. Reacting with hostility to expressing such needs is not helping anybody. Anything of substance can be said in a neutral or cooperative tone. Let's strive for it. 2. Old code is literally 100% of code run on PHP now, with regard to 7.1 or any next.next version. Every application deployed is old code. And due to PHP's by now venerable history - yes, some of this code is very old, sometimes originating in PHP 4 code bases and beyond. This does not mean we have to be bound forever by it, but this also does not mean we should be dismissive about it and ignore it completely. As I said many times - and will say many times in the future, undoubtedly, until it improves - our adoption numbers for latest versions is nothing to be proud of. It is a problem we need to be aware of. If we design tons of new and shiny features and 0.0001% of the community ends up using them, it's not worth wasting the time IMHO. So in my opinion we should not be callous about the "never upgrade" option - because right now it's what a very sizeable part of the community already doing, and IMO this is *our* problem, not *theirs*. -- Stas Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
