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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Let's make a 5.7 release
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Andrea Faulds wrote:
>
>> I=E2=80=99ve kept putting this off, but given the current =E2=80=9Cmove =
phpng to
>> master=E2=80=9D vote, I really can=E2=80=99t delay this any longer.
>>
>> It looks like PHP 7 is going to happen and phpng will be the base of
>> that. While we could move straight to PHP 7 after the release of PHP
>> 5.6, I think there is some merit in having one more 5.x release,
>> namely 5.7, which would follow our usual release process and come out
>> next year.
>
> Basically, you're wanting to give up hope on PHP 7 in one year *at the
> moment it is started*... I think that's a pretty big mistake to do this
> already. The momentum is here now, let's use it to get PHP 7
> ready=E2=80=94instead of bogging ourselves down with a PHP 5.7.

It is not going to be one year. This is insane to consider php7 as ng only.

And we need 5.7 anyway to prepare 7, as stated numerous time already.

Cheers,
--=20
Pierre

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