Re: [RFC] 64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer

On 24 January 2014 01:26, Christopher Jones <christopher.jones@oracle.com> wrote: > Overall > - I'm fine with changes going into, say, PHP 5.7 > - I'm fine with the type renaming > - I'd prefer ZPP compatibility was kept > - I'm fine with dropping support for old SAPIs, but I think warning > is needed no matter how unusable they currently are e.g. this means > merging the feature to PHP 5.7 This is pretty much how I feel about this too. As a user, it's something I'd like to have, but as a maintainer or developer on a few extensions (some PECL, some third party), this isn't something I'm terribly excited about having on a few months notice for 5.6 — it's going to be an annoying, subtle change for code that has to support older versions, as worthwhile as it is in the long term. I think Nikita's earlier point upthread about it being something that feels like a major version feature is a potentially a good one. I'm happy enough with it being in 5.7 if we still don't have any plans for 5++ in 6-12 months, but if we end up starting to work on a 5++ simultaneously with 5.7 (which I could see happening, given recent threads on Internals), then it may even be better held off for that. Adam