Re: Let's make a 5.7 release

On 15 Aug 2014, at 15:51, Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net> wrote: > With regard to the scope of PHP 7, I think it would be great to limit > ourselves to "infrastructure" improvements (new executor from PHPNG, > AST-based compiler (plus userland extension that provides access to > the AST) from Nikita) and cleanup (removal of deprecated features). > This cleaned up platform would be a great foundation for introducing new > features in PHP 7.1. I’m not sure that’s a good idea. Certain new features would require breaking backwards-compatibility, which we can’t do in minor releases. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/