Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-15 Thread Christoph M. Becker
On 14.12.2016 at 23:29, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Niklas Keller wrote: > >> 2016-12-14 12:23 GMT+01:00 Christoph M. Becker : >> >>> The end of active support for PHP 5.6 is documented to be on December, >>> 31th[1]. Does that mean that there'll be no further releas

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread Alice Wonder
On 12/14/2016 02:29 PM, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Niklas Keller wrote: 2016-12-14 12:23 GMT+01:00 Christoph M. Becker : Hi! The end of active support for PHP 5.6 is documented to be on December, 31th[1]. Does that mean that there'll be no further release with "n

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Niklas Keller wrote: > 2016-12-14 12:23 GMT+01:00 Christoph M. Becker : > >> Hi! >> >> The end of active support for PHP 5.6 is documented to be on December, >> 31th[1]. Does that mean that there'll be no further release with >> "normal" bug fixes (but only secur

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
Perhaps the gcc compiler is an absolute requirement and if that is true then the code isn't acceptable to any other compiler regardless if it is C99 compliant or otherwise. GCC is not a requirement. At the very least, PHP compiles on clang and MSVC, and I believe it works with some other compi

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 12/14/2016 03:48 PM, Nikita Popov wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 12/14/2016 03:31 PM, Marco Pivetta wrote: See https://secure.php.net/supported-versions.php I see. I guess the question has to be "why is the 5.6.x codebase only to receive security fixes

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hi, Dennis Clarke wrote: This is entirely too soon. At the present moment neither of the PHP 7.0 releases will compile clean on a strict POSIX environment. At all. The version 5.6.x tree is perfectly stable and works out of the box without an endless compile nightmare whereas 7.0.14 and 7.1.0 wo

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread Ryan Pallas
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 12/14/2016 03:31 PM, Marco Pivetta wrote: > >> See https://secure.php.net/supported-versions.php >> > > I see. > > I guess the question has to be "why is the 5.6.x codebase only to receive > security fixes for a very brief while into 2017

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread Nikita Popov
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 12/14/2016 03:31 PM, Marco Pivetta wrote: > >> See https://secure.php.net/supported-versions.php >> > > I see. > > I guess the question has to be "why is the 5.6.x codebase only to receive > security fixes for a very brief while into 2017

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 12/14/2016 03:31 PM, Marco Pivetta wrote: See https://secure.php.net/supported-versions.php I see. I guess the question has to be "why is the 5.6.x codebase only to receive security fixes for a very brief while into 2017" ? Just curious what the thinking is here. Dennis -- PHP Intern

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 12/14/2016 01:29 PM, David Zuelke wrote: On 14.12.2016, at 16:15, Dennis Clarke wrote: On 12/14/2016 06:35 AM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: Hi On Dec 14, 2016 12:23, "Christoph M. Becker" wrote: Hi! The end of active support for PHP 5.6 is documented to be on December, 31th[1]. Does t

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread Marco Pivetta
See https://secure.php.net/supported-versions.php On 14 Dec 2016 9:29 p.m., "Dennis Clarke" wrote: > > >> >> PHP 5.6 isn't EOL for a further two years, you should be fine. >> >> > Thank you so much. I can only guess this is posted on a "lifetime" page > somewhere on php.net but I didn't see it.

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
PHP 5.6 isn't EOL for a further two years, you should be fine. Thank you so much. I can only guess this is posted on a "lifetime" page somewhere on php.net but I didn't see it. Dennis -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsu

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread David Zuelke
On 14.12.2016, at 16:15, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > On 12/14/2016 06:35 AM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: >> Hi >> >> On Dec 14, 2016 12:23, "Christoph M. Becker" wrote: >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> The end of active support for PHP 5.6 is documented to be on December, >>> 31th[1]. Does that mean that th

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread Christoph M. Becker
On 14.12.2016 at 14:05, Niklas Keller wrote: > 2016-12-14 12:23 GMT+01:00 Christoph M. Becker : > >> The end of active support for PHP 5.6 is documented to be on December, >> 31th[1]. Does that mean that there'll be no further release with >> "normal" bug fixes (but only security fixes)? >> >> [1

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread Davey Shafik
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 12/14/2016 06:35 AM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: > >> Hi >> >> On Dec 14, 2016 12:23, "Christoph M. Becker" wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> The end of active support for PHP 5.6 is documented to be on December, >>> 31th[1]. Does that mean

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 12/14/2016 06:35 AM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: Hi On Dec 14, 2016 12:23, "Christoph M. Becker" wrote: Hi! The end of active support for PHP 5.6 is documented to be on December, 31th[1]. Does that mean that there'll be no further release with "normal" bug fixes (but only security fixes)

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread Niklas Keller
2016-12-14 12:23 GMT+01:00 Christoph M. Becker : > Hi! > > The end of active support for PHP 5.6 is documented to be on December, > 31th[1]. Does that mean that there'll be no further release with > "normal" bug fixes (but only security fixes)? > > [1] > I

Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support

2016-12-14 Thread Kalle Sommer Nielsen
Hi On Dec 14, 2016 12:23, "Christoph M. Becker" wrote: > > Hi! > > The end of active support for PHP 5.6 is documented to be on December, > 31th[1]. Does that mean that there'll be no further release with > "normal" bug fixes (but only security fixes)? Yes, 5.6 was extended to compensate for 5-