Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76556 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 60134 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2014 14:53:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Aug 2014 14:53:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.200 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.200 imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.200] ([192.64.116.200:38362] helo=imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 28/B6-48767-3DE1EE35 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:53:09 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29CC4B00087; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:53:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap1.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap1.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 3narPsk9gaaB; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:53:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (05439dda.skybroadband.com [5.67.157.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DD733B00085; Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:53:03 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: <53EE1E56.8050602@php.net> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:53:01 +0100 Cc: internals@lists.php.net Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <195396E3-4633-4F70-B78E-565DFAA369A7@ajf.me> References: <5C97D818-4616-440D-9C0D-B9F9C8D034DC@ajf.me> <53EE1E56.8050602@php.net> To: Sebastian Bergmann X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Let's make a 5.7 release From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 15 Aug 2014, at 15:51, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > 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. I=92m not sure that=92s a good idea. Certain new features would require = breaking backwards-compatibility, which we can=92t do in minor releases. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/