Re: [RFC] PHP 5.7

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Matteo Beccati <php@beccati.com> wrote: > > On 16/12/2014 05:07, Xinchen Hui 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.... >> >> I think we can extend 5.6 release cycle to avoid that.. >> > > I tend to agree with Xinchen here. A new minor release just to introduce a > few deprecation messages? It sounds like a lot of work (it also need to be > maintained) for little gain. > > I think that doesn't also match the plans of other (accepted?) RFCs that > were targeted for 5.7. I think I've seen it many times. > > > We already has one accepted RFC which targets 5.7, and as I mentioned before 5.7.0 wouldn't be featureless, but would contain the small self-contained features which are currently targeting 5.6.x. So 5.7.0 would be a minor version without new major features, but also no BC break, would allow us to make 5.6 more stable, and be a stepping stone for 7.0 with the deprecated errors. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu