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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] On not rushing things at the last minute
From: kalle@php.net (Kalle Sommer Nielsen)

Den tir. 10. jul. 2018 kl. 17.26 skrev Dustin Wheeler <mdwheele@ncsu.edu>:
> I'm relatively new to all of this. I think it's a bit strange to
> earmark a minor release as deprecation-only, but I also wasn't around
> for the last major upgrade to see discussion (was 5.6 the focus of
> many deprecations?)

Afair then it was proposed to have PHP 5.7 as a deprecation/migration
friendly release but we ended just rolling with PHP7 and the migration
was merely flawless. Personally I don't like the idea of such type of
releases either, I think they make sense on paper but reality is also
that we have a branch to support for years to come as to our current
release policy.


-- 
regards,

Kalle Sommer Nielsen
kalle@php.net