On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:20 AM Sebastian Bergmann <sebast...@php.net> wrote:
> Am 31.01.2019 um 18:08 schrieb Derick Rethans: > > I do not believe that something major like this should make it into any > > PHP 7.x release. Having it as experimental new feature in the master/PHP > > 8.0 branch makes the most sense to me. > > ACK > Does it mean that when PHP 8.0 comes out (in roughly two years' time most probably), we'd be saying this is experimental? Or that only in the meantime, for the brave folks that want to experiment PHP 8.0 ~2yrs before it's released, we'd say it's experimental but will remove that tag by the time 8.0 is released? If it's the former - I don't think we should go in this direction. If we decide that it's sensible to have it - I think we should work to ensure that it's production ready by the time PHP 8.0 is released. Offering it as something experimental (i.e. not for production) in 7.4 can help us with that goal, as it will make it easier for a wider range of people to experiment with it and provide feedback. I can't think of any technological downsides to including it as experimental in 7.4 - there's a slight "marketing" downside (it will be less of a shiny new thing in PHP 8.0), but personally I think the feedback we're likely to get is worth it. Zeev
