Re: [RFC] Deprecations for PHP 7.2

On 19.11.2016 at 18:23, Rowan Collins wrote: > On a broader note, I would like to restate my desire for some kind of > road map or plan of roughly when 8.0 is expected, to inform decisions on > things like this. Does "deprecate in 7.2" mean removal in 2 years time, > or 5, or 10? > > Previously I've been answered with "the Big Feature of 8.0 will be JIT", > but I am not a fan of tying the deprecation and feature policy to > "whenever we happen to have a rewrite of the engine ready"; it muddles > product branding with API versioning. If JIT isn't ready for 10 years, > does that mean we have to wait 10 years to break BC? And if it's ready > in 2018, does that mean everything deprecated in 7.2 has to be > immediately dropped after just one year? Should we decouple the Zend > Engine version from the language version, and use separate semantic > versions for each? IMHO, we should consider introducing a fixed schedule for major releases (say, every 4 years). -- Christoph M. Becker