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

2014-01-31 Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Stephen Zarkos wrote: > > > >> From: Hannes Magnusson [mailto:hannes.magnusson@gmail.com] > >> > >> > I was hoping for yes/no vote - which case I would have voted +1 and > >> > we could work on better approach for the extensions in time for the > >> > 6.0 release which this clearly is the start of. > >> > >> Two years from the release of 5.6.0, 5.5 will be EOL and extension > >> developers can just focus on compat with 5.6+ and 6.0 (assuming we > >> ever see it). At that time it would be nice IMHO if 5.6+ and 6.0 were > >> as similar as possible, starting with this RFC. > > > > EOL in userland has no meaning. With many distributions on PHP 5.3 or > > 5.4, and commercial users even older version (we have to maintain 5.2 > > support for now f.e.) it's really not as simple as saying that "when 5.5 > > is EOL, we can just focus on 5.6+ and 6.0. This is not Utopia. > > It was always like that. It was the case from 4.x to 5.x, and many of > us use that argument to block must have features in 5.0. Interestingly > enough we added every single features afterwards... Go figure. > > > In short: we are upstream and we have to focus on moving forward and > keep PHP as its best possible level. That does not mean we have to > break things in every single release but we cannot stick to something > because we have to support the last 5 dead major releases for some > random customers, who rely on distributions anyway (they won't update > using upstream code any time soon anyway). > > cheers, > -- > Pierre > This. Said even better than I was planning to.