Re: PHP 5.6 life cycle

Zeev Suraski in php.internals (Sun, 6 Dec 2015 15:24:02 +0200): > From: Jan Ehrhardt [mailto:phpdev@ehrhardt.nl] >> 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. For extensions that also have Windows support there is an extra hurdle: the dependencies have to be ported from VC11 to VC14. Your friend Pierre will say: piece of cake. @Pierre: try to compile libgeoip. Unless VC14 SP1 does it better, there is a chance you will run into "fatal error C1026: parser stack overflow, program too complex". -- Jan