Re: Changing fundamental language behaviors

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 10:10 AM Christian Schneider <cschneid@cschneid.com> wrote: > Am 13.09.2019 um 09:41 schrieb Lester Caine <lester@lsces.uk>: > > On 12/09/2019 23:16, Mike Schinkel wrote: > >> Those who vote on this list will decide if breaking WordPress > end-user's site bothers them or not. > > That's something too few people on this list seem to be aware of: > Breaking other people's perfectly functional code because you believe in a > different coding style is not something which should be done easily. > > > So we *DO* need an LTS version of PHP that will run perfectly functional > websites for the next ten years while others create the next replacement > for the likes of WordPress by moving framework functionality inside PHP ... > > I agree! > Which means there will be additional burden on the PHP core developers as > there will be another version to back port security fixes to for a long > time. Also not a decision to be made lightly. > I would think that this is exactly what a company like Zend would charge their customers for. Microsoft is doing it for free for 5.6, I imagine for their bigger Azure customres here: https://github.com/microsoft/php-src LTS versions should not be the responsibility of the core developers, they are the responsibile of a legal entity with financial means that either directly sponsors the OSS project (Ubuntu) or is downstream of the project (RedHat). PHP is entirely a community project of volunteers that is already hanging by a thread given the workload. > While I do like democracy I also agree with Zeev that it is too easy for > people to vote yes on a breaking change even if they didn't think it > through. > > So if you voted yes for any change of a notice/warning to an exception > (which will break things) please reconsider! > Is it really worth it? And if you really think so, could we make it > opt-in? Or at least globally opt-out-able? > > - Chris > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >