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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:09:49 +0200
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To: Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com>
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Faulds [mailto:ajf@ajf.me]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 10:00 AM
> To: Ferenc Kovacs
> Cc: Matteo Beccati; Xinchen Hui; PHP Internals
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7
>
> Hey,
>
> > On 16 Dec 2014, at 07:58, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > We already has one accepted RFC which targets 5.7, and as I mentioned
> before 5.7.0 wouldn't be featureless, but would contain the small self-
> contained features which are currently targeting 5.6.x.
> > So 5.7.0 would be a minor version without new major features, but also
> > no
> BC break, would allow us to make 5.6 more stable, and be a stepping stone
> for 7.0 with the deprecated errors.
>
> That=E2=80=99s a benefit I hadn=E2=80=99t considered: people using distro=
s are stuck on a
> specific micro, so anything added to 5.6.x they=E2=80=99ll be able to get=
 with
> 5.7.0,
> right?

I'm missing what benefit this gives us.

Distros lock the version (all 3 digits) for a particular distro version;  A=
t
the same time, when a new version of the distro comes out, there are no
version restrictions of any kind.

So for a given distro that uses 5.6.8 (as an example), upgrading to 5.6.9 o=
r
5.7.0 or even 7.0.0 is equally forbidden within the same distro version, an=
d
equally allowed within a new distro version.

Zeev