Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:71857 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 85462 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2014 11:46:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Jan 2014 11:46:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:35944] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id D2/89-39593-31D8BE25 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:46:28 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 073E7E203C; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:46:24 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:46:23 +0000 (GMT) X-X-Sender: derick@whisky.home.derickrethans.nl To: Arvids Godjuks cc: PHP Developers Mailing List In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1391139106.6953.118.camel@ghost> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="8323329-1260224709-1391168784=:6067" Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] 64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) --8323329-1260224709-1391168784=:6067 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Arvids Godjuks wrote: > 2014-01-31 Derick Rethans : >=20 > > On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Anatol Belski wrote: > > > > > > So with next major you mean you would abandon the 5.x support in your > > > exts, as it's too much? > > > > No, absolutely not. Right now, we have to support 5.2 to 5.6=E2=80=94I = think I > > even support 5.1 for Xdebug. But with this change, the 5.6 compatible > > code is drastically different from the 5.2-5.5 ones. >=20 > 5.3 is in the EOL phase and is not maintained at this point. It's EOL=20 > ends in June. So with 5.6 all you have to maintain is 5.4 to 5.6 .=20 > Remember - no more than 3 branches at one time are supported. My commercial customers as well as my current employer disagrees.=20 Whatever "php.net" decides not to support anymore has no impact on the=20 commercial world. There is a lot more custom extensions out there than=20 you probably expect. > > Uhm, the current situation works just fine. I wouldn't call this=20 > > technical debt. I am also not saying that this branch is not a good=20 > > thing=E2=80=94but so would be "consistent function naming" or "case=20 > > sensitive function/method names"=E2=80=94and we're not never going to g= et=20 > > these either. > > >=20 > Sorry, it's not a technical dept? As a userland developer, I had my=20 > moments cursing the PHP developers in general for not properly working=20 > PHP in 64 bit environment. PHP works just fine a proper 64-bit environment. cheers, Derick --=20 http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine --8323329-1260224709-1391168784=:6067--