Re: [VOTE][RFC] PHP 5.7

On 07/01/2015 01:44, Andrea Faulds wrote:

The voting widget and RFC can be found here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php57

Hi, We've discussed this RFC with other members of AFUP and while opinions have been expressed for both "yes" and "no", it seems we are at about 2/3 of "yes" -- which means we would be +1. Note, though, we are mostly a community of users (which means we generally have a point of view of "users") -- and there aren't many PHP contributors amongst us. Trying to summarize what we have said, on the +1 side : * PHP 5.x would be maintained (especially, it would receive security fixes) for one additional year, which would be a good thing for those who will not update to PHP 7 soon (and there are some -- still, not sure they would update to PHP 5.7 either) * Notices / deprecation warnings could help making the migration to PHP 7 easier (once you've migrated to the last 5.x minor version and fixed a few things, you'll know migrating to the next major should not be too hard) And, on the -1 side : * Even if there is no PHP 5.7, we already have something like 2 years left before PHP 5.6 stops getting security fixes -- and, taking a look at current versions usage, if one doesn't upgrade in 2 years, they probably won't upgrade in 3 years either. * Things that will break for PHP 7 will be indicated by the migration guide (and there are some automatic helper tools for some) * There are not that many PHP contributors -- which means having PHP 5.7 and PHP 7 more or less in parallel might slow PHP 7 down (not only for the initial release, but also for maintenance and evolutions later). -- Pascal MARTIN, AFUP - French UG http://php-internals.afup.org/