> I think it should also be pointed out that there's nothing stopping anyone > from forking PHP into a new project as Zeev described and maintain feature > parity. As I understand, the reason something like this hasn't happened > already is because it would involve a ton of work and nobody wants to deal > with it. But if you or anyone else does manage to put a team together and > make something like this happen as a separate project, I'd certainly have > no objection.
It does not need to be a fork. AFAIK there is no technical obstacle to extend lifetime of particular version on PHP and create some kind of LTS line. For example, PHP 7.4 could be supported for 10-20 years (probably with security patches only), so everyone who has "legacy - do not touch it!" code can stick to 7.4 line. Everyone else could just move on and use PHP 8 with all new features and BC breaks. Regards, Robert Korulczyk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
