RE: [PHP-DEV] Let's make a 5.7 release
| From: | Zeev Suraski | Date: | Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:29:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] Let's make a 5.7 release | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derick Rethans [mailto:derick@php.net]
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 12:25 PM
> To: Andrea Faulds
> Cc: PHP internals
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Let's make a 5.7 release
>
> 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.
Exactly.
Zeev