Re: Long-Term Planning for PHP 9.0 Error Promotion

Hey Jakub, On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 1:58 PM Jakub Zelenka <bukka@php.net> wrote: > > > > 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] "÷„ÈC‹ѺH’U_ > 7œhttps://blog.packagist.com/php-versions-stats-2021-1-edition/ > A more updated statistic: https://stitcher.io/blog/php-version-stats-january-2022 Continuously generated output at https://packagist.org/php-statistics I also maintain a number of PHP 5 (closed-source) projects that don't use packagist nor composer, but that's really just their problem, as they will need to upgrade to ~7.0.0 first anyway. Also, my customers are gently asked to sign a piece of paper in which I'm not responsible for their bad security awareness. For those projects, should it be needed, Zend provides commercial support as a "OMG WE DON'T ACTUALLY WANT TO PAY TO ACTUALLY IMPROVE OUR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE" last resort. Greets, Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/