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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:12:16 +0800
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: PHP 7.0 timeline
From: laruence@php.net (Xinchen Hui)

Hey:

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> we should freeze new features by the end of this year. then we could
>> release 7 asap
>
> I think this is way too aggressive. This means basically next to nothing
> that is not already has prepared RC gets into 7, since only discussion +
> vote would take at least a month for anything substantial, and you have
> to also work on RFC and patch. And not everybody has time to work on all
> this fulltime, and some discussions can be slow or long-winded.
>
the problem here is, there is always new features if we wait...

IMO,  AST, INT64, NG, Uniforme variables style is enough for a new
marjor version.. why we still need to wait?

New features which missed PHP7.0, they can target at 7.1 instead.

thanks
> I think Zeev's timeline looks much better in this regard. I think GA
> mid-October 2015 sounds a bit optimistic, but who knows, maybe it's me
> that it too pessimistic :)
> --
> Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect
> SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/



-- 
Xinchen Hui
@Laruence
http://www.laruence.com/