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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:23:10 +0200
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To: Levi Morrison <levim@php.net>, Xinchen Hui <laruence@php.net>, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me>
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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: morrison.levi@gmail.com [mailto:morrison.levi@gmail.com] On
> Behalf Of Levi Morrison
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 9:29 AM
> To: Xinchen Hui
> Cc: Andrea Faulds; PHP Internals
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7
>
> >> There has been some debate about whether to make =E2=80=9CPHP 5.7". I =
have
> made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, PHP
> 5.7,
> to be released at the same time as PHP 7, with no new features whatsoever=
.
> >>
> > I am wondering why we need that?  no new features....
> >
> > I think we can extend 5.6 release cycle to avoid that..
>
> Extending the PHP 5.6 release cycle doesn't give an opportunity to raise
> different E_STRICT and E_DEPRECATED messages in preparation for PHP 7.0.
> This may or may not be something you value, but it's something I
> personally
> value.

I don't see why we'd need new E_STRICT's, but what stops us from adding
E_DEPRECATED to 5.6.x?

I think the likelihood of getting these notices in the hands of people goes
way higher if we put it into 5.6.x, which will be perceived as a bug-fix
release, than a 5.7.0, which will be perceived as a feature release.

Zeev