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To: Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] On the road to PHP 5.7 , or not ?
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds)

Hi!

> On 12 Dec 2014, at 19:40, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
>=20
>> If not : we'll happen having 3 active versions (5.6 , 5.7 and 7.0) =
and one
>> sec-
>> fix only (5.5) , *this is something we don't want* , because we have =
the
>> feeling that it is too much pain to maintain so many versions alive.
>=20
> It's worse than that.  Since the PHP 7 timeline was already approved =
and
> must be a working assumption, introducing a 1yr delay for 5.7 is out =
of the
> question.  That means that working on PHP 5.7 would require us to work =
on
> two upcoming content releases (with new features and substantial =
changes)
> simultaneously, which IIRC is both unprecedented and a bad idea given =
our
> limited resources.  In my opinion, we should definitely focus all of =
our
> resources and bandwidth on getting 7.0 out the door.  7.0 is =
strategic.  5.7
> is tactical.

I must disagree: 5.7 would only be trivially different from 5.6 =
(deprecations), the effort involved is only as much as continuing to =
maintain 5.6, and we have to do that anyway. So there=E2=80=99s no =
problem with working on both.

Thanks!
--
Andrea Faulds
http://ajf.me/=