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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Is it fair that people with no karma can vote on RFCs?
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

On 20/09/14 12:51, Rowan Collins wrote:
> On 20/09/2014 10:17, Lester Caine wrote:
>> That most of my spare time is still being taken up
>> living with the consequences of changes in PHP is water under the bridge
>> now [...] PLEASE can we get
>> back to a level playing field and use PHP7 as a base to get something
>> stable and fully compatible with modern requirements. Only put stuff in
>> PHP5 now that is NEEDED so we can finally catch up!
> 
> Please refrain from turning every conversation into an excuse to jump on
> your soapbox about the direction PHP is going. Your general points have
> surely been raised and debated many times over by now, and there is no
> language change discussed in this thread for you to make specific points
> for or against.
> 
> I have no right - and no desire - to rob you of your voice, but am sure
> your energy could be better directed to more specific goals.

Given that the bulk of users ARE still stuck with PHP5.2 or 5.3, and the
BULK of the movement in usages is from 5.2 to 5.4, I would say that THIS
is a much bigger vote for maintaining some stability. It is also a big
indicator that who actually votes on the RFC's is somewhat academic!
There is not a high demand for much of the tinkering going on, and I see
little pressure in the field to take them up. Any heavily used framework
has to maintain compatibility with PHP5.3 currently. ( And who is using
PHP5.7 live? )

My own current roadmap is to get everything over to PHP5.4 and then look
at where the core is by which time I hope my next step will be to PHP7
skipping anything being discussed for 5.x now anyway.

http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/pl-php/5
http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/5/all

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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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