Re: Long-Term Planning for PHP 9.0 Error Promotion
| From: | Jakub Zelenka | Date: | Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:58:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Long-Term Planning for PHP 9.0 Error Promotion | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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>
> PHP 9.0, likely a few years away at this point, is our next opportunity
> to make significant breaking changes.
>
Maybe we should give users a bit more time for adoption and consider major
version bump when PHP 8 has got at least 80% and the PHP 5 usage is close
to zero. I know that it's hard to get exact numbers but estimates like [1]
or even packagist stats like [2] (I'm aware that not every project uses
composer but still better than nothing) could give us some idea. I'm mainly
worried that we could introduce too many breaking changes that make
migrations (especially for old projects) much harder.
[1] https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php
[2] https://blog.packagist.com/php-versions-stats-2021-1-edition/
Regards
Jakub