Re: [RFC] PHP 5.7

Hi Xinchen, > On 16 Dec 2014, at 04:07, Xinchen Hui <laruence@php.net> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: >> Good evening, >> >> There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7". I have made a very >> simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, PHP 5.7, to be released at the same time as >> PHP 7, with no new features whatsoever. >> > I am wondering why we need that? no new features…. The reasoning behind this is to encourage people to switch to PHP 7 if they want new features. > I think we can extend 5.6 release cycle to avoid that.. We could, but we wouldn’t be able to introduce deprecation notices in a 5.6 micro, so we’d need a new minor releases. Also, I failed to mention it in the RFC (will do so), but for any new reserved words in PHP 7, we should also reserve them in 5.7. Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/