Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Minimum supported versions for PHP 8.6

Hi On 2026-07-20 19:24, Jakub Zelenka wrote:

I don't exactly understand why that Autoconf section does not mention that it is not available on distro levels for RHEL 8 and 9 so it makes things difficult for packagers like Remi who explicitly asked to delay it:

The proposal clearly specifies the minimum versions for various distros.

https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/21159#issuecomment-4287762254 ? This is quite strange because you even linked Tim's question and considering that

The question has been left unanswered. Since the only reply was a vague “I prefer to wait”, I proceeded with writing the RFC.

the Remi's preference is to delay, it obviously means that there are likely some plans to package 8.6 for those distros and this change will just make it harder. I don't see reason to rush it to 8.6 and make life harder for packagers so I voted no.

I consider being able to properly rely on C11 functionality to be worth it. Generally speaking, compilers on operating systems that don’t have autoconf 2.71 likely also don’t (fully) support C11, the lack of a modern autoconf is really just a canary there. Best regards Tim Düsterhus