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Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 01:43:56 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecate PHP's short open tags
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 24.04.2019 at 22:47, Bj=C3=B6rn Larsson wrote:

> I recall the discussion about extending the support for 7.4 like we had
> for 5.6, see:
> - https://externals.io/message/104581#104807
>
> I read the discussion as it was rejected, but features like this would
> benefit from it,
> since not only "inhouse" code will need to adapt but also libraries.
>
> So with this feature we put more weight in the migration bucket, but not
> so much
> benefit. Are we then willing to extend the support for PHP 7.4 given
> features like
> this? Other BC breaking features will of course also benefit ;-)

We had an RFC regarding the PHP 5 support timeline[1], so why not have
an RFC regarding the PHP 7 support timeline?  Any volunteers?

[1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php56timeline>

=2D-
Christoph M. Becker