Re: [RFC] PHP 5.7

Hi everyone, > On 16 Dec 2014, at 00:15, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote: > > On 15 December 2014 at 16:09, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: >> The RFC can be found here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php57 > > Thanks for the taking the initiative on this. > > On timing: I think we should release 5.7 in August (12 months after > 5.6), rather than lining it up with 7.0. This gives us the opportunity > to then focus our attention on 7.0 entirely for the crucial RC phase > of that release. Given the limited scope of 5.7, we shouldn't need as > long a testing cycle. > On 16 Dec 2014, at 01:19, Kris Craig <kris.craig@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 on this. I agree with Adam; it'd be better to line up 5.7 with the support timeline > for 5.6 and just handle 7's timeline separately. > I’ve updated the RFC to target August 2015 for release. This would mean it would come out a year after 5.6, and the RC phase would be half as PHP 7’s. > On 16 Dec 2014, at 05:51, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > > 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. I’ve also updated the to note that reserved words in PHP 7 can be pre-reserved in PHP 5.7. Thanks for your comments! -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/