Re: Let's make a 5.7 release
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:25:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Let's make a 5.7 release | ||
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Andrea Faulds wrote:
> I’ve kept putting this off, but given the current “move phpng to
> master” vote, I really can’t delay this any longer.
>
> It looks like PHP 7 is going to happen and phpng will be the base of
> that. While we could move straight to PHP 7 after the release of PHP
> 5.6, I think there is some merit in having one more 5.x release,
> namely 5.7, which would follow our usual release process and come out
> next year.
Basically, you're wanting to give up hope on PHP 7 in one year *at the
moment it is started*... I think that's a pretty big mistake to do this
already. The momentum is here now, let's use it to get PHP 7
ready—instead of bogging ourselves down with a PHP 5.7.
cheers,
Derick