Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 7.2

On 19.11.2016 at 18:56, Marco Pivetta wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <kalle@php.net> wrote: > >> So to answer your question in a short without much more rambling: I >> think we should deprecate in x.z, then remove in x.z+1 depending on >> the feature, if we say "Oh let's remove this in the next major", >> chances are that major won't even be branches for years, and at that >> time, it could be forgotten. > > That will end up breaking the "expected" (because it's not that way anyway, > but almost) SemVer approach, diminishing the trust from consumers in any > kind of upgrade. > Most of the current open-source libs out there are trying to push for > SemVer - having PHP not following that seems like a huge mess to me. Our release process[1] explicitly forbids breaking userland API between x.y.z and x.y+1.z. [1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/releaseprocess> -- Christoph M. Becker