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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:29:41 +0300
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To: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Let's make a 5.7 release
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derick Rethans [mailto:derick@php.net]
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 12:25 PM
> To: Andrea Faulds
> Cc: PHP internals
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Let's make a 5.7 release
>
> 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.

Exactly.

Zeev