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Subject: PHP_VERSION_SERIES_EOL_DATE or similar constants?
From: dzuelke@salesforce.com (David Zuelke)

Hi all,

Would it not be lovely to have, say, two new constants, that contain
the date (ISO, UTC, I guess) of when the running PHP series will be
end-of-maintenance and end-of-life?

Of course PHP_VERSION_SERIES_EOM_DATE and PHP_VERSION_SERIES_EOL_DATE
are a little verbose, but...

It would be really useful for e.g. code check systems, tools like
Composer, hosting platforms, to inform the user of an upcoming or past
EOM/EOL date, without having to maintain a list of these dates
separately (by copying from, or scraping, php.net/eol.php).

Does that sound useful to anyone? It would of course be problematic in
cases where the EOL date is yet to be determined, or changes later (as
it happened with the 5.6 extension), but given that there would still
be newer releases after such a case, where the value of the
constant(s) could then be updated, that'd probably not be so
problematic.

Trivial? Not? Great? Bad? RFC worthy?

Regards,

David