RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 life cycle
| From: | Zeev Suraski | Date: | Sun, 06 Dec 2015 13:24:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 life cycle | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Ehrhardt [mailto:phpdev@ehrhardt.nl]
> Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2015 3:21 PM
> To: internals@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 life cycle
>
> Zeev Suraski in php.internals (Sun, 6 Dec 2015 14:38:10 +0200):
> >IMHO, I think we need to look at the 5.6 lifecycle very differently
> >from how we look at 5.5 and earlier. This is really the 5.x lifecycle
> >as it's the last version that's relatively completely painless to
> >upgrade to from 5.x (especially 5.3 and later).
>
> But there must be thousands of extensions out there, that we have no
> knowledge of. For people that have already done a port to PHP7 the next
> one is relatively simple. But porting your first one has a steep
learning curve.
That's another good point I didn't think about.
Zeev