Re: On the road to PHP 5.7 , or not ?

On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 12 Dec 2014, Julien Pauli wrote: > > > > > So the main question is : *What version will we release next year > > > ?* > > > > > > Will we have a PHP 5.7, or jump directly to a 7.0 ? > > > > > > Don't forget, that if we go for a 5.7 , then we won't have a 7.0 > > > at least one year later. > > > > We have accepted the timeline for 7, so we need to stick to that: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php7timeline#vote > > > > So that means no 5.7. > > This rfc was specific to php7, and while you are right that with that > we do have an approved timelime for php7, but this doesn't say > anything about 5.7 (and as far as I'm concerned, it was an intentional > choice from Zeev not just something he forgot to include). > > Maybe it would be worthwile for you to repeat your arguments or simply > link them, as I do remember that you are supporting the idea of not > having any other release minor release until php7 is out of the door > so the development efforts are not fragmented (which as I mentioned in > my previous mail I feell it would be only a shift from 5.6.x to 5.7.0 > and not fragmanting the php7 development, but you seem to disagree). Yes, I disagree. It's a time thing. Let's all work on one thing instead of *two*. Clearly you must see that there is not enough bandwidth? It will also prevent people from "oh we can get this into 5.7" nonsense. It's not helpful, and it *is* fragmenting development. cheers, Derick