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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Let's make a 5.7 release
From: sebastian@php.net (Sebastian Bergmann)

Am 15.08.2014 um 02:48 schrieb Andrea Faulds:
> As PHP 7 may break backwards-compatibility, 5.7 gives us a chance to add 
> deprecation warnings and such to help people prepare for 7.

 If the only changes that PHP 5.7 introduces (as compared to PHP 5.6) are
 deprecation warnings for features removed in PHP 7 then I am all for
 having PHP 5.7.

 With regard to the scope of PHP 7, I think it would be great to limit
 ourselves to "infrastructure" improvements (new executor from PHPNG,
 AST-based compiler (plus userland extension that provides access to
 the AST) from Nikita) and cleanup (removal of deprecated features).
 This cleaned up platform would be a great foundation for introducing new
 features in PHP 7.1.