Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:77966 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 22687 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2014 10:33:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Oct 2014 10:33:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk from 217.147.176.214 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.147.176.214 mail4-2.serversure.net Linux 2.6 Received: from [217.147.176.214] ([217.147.176.214:43413] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 64/A7-15889-4EBFC345 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 06:33:09 -0400 Received: (qmail 867 invoked by uid 89); 14 Oct 2014 10:33:05 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 860, pid: 863, t: 0.0772s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.96/m:52/d:10677 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.8?) (lester@rainbowdigitalmedia.org.uk@109.156.81.35) by mail4.serversure.net with ESMTPA; 14 Oct 2014 10:33:05 -0000 Message-ID: <543CFBE0.1030904@lsces.co.uk> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:33:04 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <32b8315ede38cd03ad4a7ab4497397e9@mail.gmail.com> <543CF595.6030107@jonstirling.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <543CF595.6030107@jonstirling.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] RFC: PHP 7.0 timeline From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) On 14/10/14 11:06, Jonny Stirling wrote: > At the same time, which I think has been discussed before, perhaps it's > time for a regular major release cycle (regular as in x (2-3?) years) so > that there is a timescale for when new changes (or ones that might be > intentionally or unintentionally missed / skipped for this major) that > wouldn't be allowed in minor releases can be proposed / written against? > > Apologies for strictly being off-topic. In hindsight I still feel PHP5.4 should have been a new major version which would have allowed a little more stability in the PHP5 stream, while allowing more flexibility to make changes. I was always fobbed of with 'It's only a number', but it IS a lot more than that. People are now referring to a 10 year period for the next major, but 5 year steps just seem a lot more manageable than 2 to 3 year steps? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk