Re: Bringing Peace to the Galaxy
| From: | Robert Korulczyk | Date: | Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:44:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Bringing Peace to the Galaxy | ||
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> 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