Re: RFC: PHP 7.0 timeline

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > On 10/14/2014 05:20 PM, Tjerk Meesters wrote: >> >> On 15 Oct 2014, at 01:24, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: >> >>> On 10/14/2014 10:14 AM, Stas Malyshev wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>>> IMO, AST, INT64, NG, Uniforme variables style is enough for a new >>>>> marjor version.. why we still need to wait? >>>> >>>> We don't need to just "wait", as sit and do nothing. We need to >>>> allocate >>>> time for other features. >>> >>> There are also quite a few really low-level changes in master right now. >>> It is going to take quite a bit of time to stabilize. For example, >>> something as basic as array iteration is inadvertently different: >>> >>> https://bugs.php.net/68215 >> >> This is a known issue for which the test cases were marked as XFAIL because of the amount >> of work involved to get it fixed: >> >> >> https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/5831cca9576f4e0d4daed75a9915d436dfc5f4e5 > > Yes, I am aware of that. I was using it to illustrate the point that > even with the changes currently in master, never mind any new things we > might add, we have a lot of work left to do before we are anywhere near > ready for a release. I agree, we must absolutely provide something stable, solid, performant and feature rich. This will take time to stabilize and spot edge cases, some of them could even lead to a reverse somewhere in the code. Julien.Pauli