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

On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 21:15 +0100, Anatol Belski wrote: > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/size_t_and_int64 It is my understanding that part of the reason for the release workflow RFC was that if patches miss the mark they don't have to wait for long till the next release comes. In this case here we have 5.6.0alpaha1 out. Adding a major API change touching each and every file can't be added to 5.6 anymore. Also the release process RFC says x.y.z to x.y+1.z [...] ABI and API can be broken (internals), src compatibility should be kept if possible, while breakages are allowed This rule contains many things that "can" and "should" and thus is open to interprettation. In my interpretation this rule is meant to allow small changes, affecting only few extensions and where it would be stupid to defer the. I think adding this patch to 5.x therefore would be quite some bending of that rule and that combined with the fact that it is late makes me believe that proposing this for 5.6 is illegal. johannes