Re: Re: PHP 5.6 life cycle

Hi all, On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Furthermore, postponing EOL now means reduced pressure to upgrade to 7. > > Again, if you think people's decision to upgrade significantly depends > on that, I think you are deluding yourself. We have tons of "pressure" > to upgrade from EOLed 5.x versions. We still got majority of people > running them, and more sites running 5.2 than 5.6, judging by > http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/5/all Upgrading extensions from PHP 5.X to PHP 5.Y is easy or even does not require any changes. Since upgrading extension modules to PHP 7 code base is not easy task for many people, giving more time for upgrading makes sense. We don't know how many private extensions are used in the wild. http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/5/all This may be an evidence that there are many. +1 for extending PHP 5.6 support. Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohgaki@ohgaki.net