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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:17:41 +0200
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To: Joe Watkins <krakjoe@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 8 Preview Releases
From: arvids.godjuks@gmail.com (Arvids Godjuks)

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Hello,

I'd like to add that as the userland developer, it would be nice to be able
to build JIT against an active branch (a.k.a PHP 7.4), cause if PHP 8
brings enough changes, it would not be realistic to fix our apps to be
compatible with PHP 8 months or years away from actual release.

=D0=BF=D1=82, 29 =D0=BC=D0=B0=D1=80. 2019 =D0=B3. =D0=B2 15:58, Joe Watkins=
 <krakjoe@gmail.com>:

> Hi Dmitry,
>
> I'm not suggesting we do it right now, I'm suggesting we look at the
> planning of it right now as it deviates from our normal release cycle.
>
> At the moment we should just consider how we want it to work, including
> when it should start ...
>
> Cheers
> Joe
>
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 14:42, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Joe,
> >
> >
> > I think, PHP-8 preview is too early.
> >
> > We even didn't freeze PHP-7.4 yet, and PHP-8 didn't get any new major
> > features (may be I forgot something) only deprecations and some interna=
l
> > improvements
> >
> > .
> >
> > According to JIT, it's probably going to be changed a lot in the neares=
t
> > future.
> >
> >
> > Thanks. Dmitry.
> > ------------------------------
> > *From:* Joe Watkins <krakjoe@php.net>
> > *Sent:* Friday, March 29, 2019 3:40:04 PM
> > *To:* release-managers@php.net; PHP internals; Dmitry Stogov
> > *Subject:* PHP 8 Preview Releases
> >
> > Morning internals,
> >
> > Since we now have a result for JIT and we know it will be included in P=
HP
> > 8, I think it's time to visit the idea brought up in discussion to have
> > preview releases of PHP 8.
> >
> > I'm interested in hearing what kind of schedules we think are going to =
be
> > useful - it's tempting to say let's track PHP-7.4 releases, possibly
> with a
> > bi-monthly interval, but I'm not sure if that may be too soon, or too
> slow,
> > or too fast.
> >
> > Thoughts please (especially from Dmitry) ?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Joe
> >
> >
> >
>


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