Re: PHP 5.6 Process

hi Ondřej! On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org> wrote: > Hi Inf^Hternals, > > Debian freeze will happen in 14 months, that means that we might be able > to squeeze PHP 5.6 into next Debian stable. > > One question though – do you envision that the module ABI will change in > PHP 5.6? (e.g. are there already plans to do so?) Obviously not > changing ABI would make things much more simpler since it won't require > the transition. Knowing before hand would also making things simpler > since I could get pre-approval from Debian release team. We surely may change it yes. Mainly due to better 64bit support, size_t and int(32|64)_t usage. That will impact a lot of code, in core or in external extensions. Help welcome in this area as it is a huge effort. Some remaining missing TSRMLS_* usage may be added as well. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org