Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:79750 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 4466 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2014 22:10:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Dec 2014 22:10:34 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=adam@adamharvey.name; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=adam@adamharvey.name; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain adamharvey.name designates 209.85.213.177 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: adam@adamharvey.name X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.213.177 mail-ig0-f177.google.com Received: from [209.85.213.177] ([209.85.213.177:59349] helo=mail-ig0-f177.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F3/65-08594-9DDA0945 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 17:10:33 -0500 Received: by mail-ig0-f177.google.com with SMTP id z20so7850450igj.16 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:10:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=adamharvey.name; s=google; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=DN2PUxg0q9kEJg8vzA12I+yCE3QtwADwNjmBcomoN5A=; b=NkX7mVDUFbGUQEt1szwPzhVfEdMR3CYcR14Mq4K6hnzI7RlFuxJRDuvJ6CnrGTf8y/ VuO3boUCxeKhX5qfn8wYSCAmqrqta5hO4a4S5+yUaORBEVJlqUoza04ZjN7IJw5Q5iGu eEHwTmRCQsj+aCW+/qmCRIsueWnLvvoX/Ktng= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=DN2PUxg0q9kEJg8vzA12I+yCE3QtwADwNjmBcomoN5A=; b=BC5ddz9uDyvw7hhSPzjMIdKYQTvwnCR0vg4NYewehFqppwnofCKIBiSSjRDdG/bUOK ySL35tRmSjSO/krqLAE7CwWMRK29C/mM7V0POic50ltY+NM+V4zZUJASg53xLjkRICPS k1xg8k+MJYvArIckoOl/MGWOGoues6mFotLRc5V+NWkP0pQbgHufVKXpn+ESi/5Q1HZ1 IhkGMABRvmKs2EJ0FieBQsv2beIzP+uU7ZMRF2s/eGTmBneytUllBCNdKLje7aHU4Ppu e0Xl2YewYX33TLrd2C031c+d6d/2IGRLbt0qs5yyE9YUhvmiZtVyZu9keqFjjtScEO1i Kzzw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQn/Gg/fOqM5xzuEDTsYWtHQEzKZpFaK1I4cBhlN9wcqQo0uiSv9hZvkBD6i9/PNgooFklsA X-Received: by 10.107.19.167 with SMTP id 39mr36669041iot.56.1418767830780; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:10:30 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: adam@adamharvey.name Received: by 10.43.112.9 with HTTP; Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:10:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <8C1EFD82-CFE0-4D01-9231-2A1658B182A6@ajf.me> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:10:10 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: VyMv6xLBUWt5neNRHjgzHUzhI0A Message-ID: To: Zeev Suraski Cc: PHP Internals Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 From: aharvey@php.net (Adam Harvey) On 16 December 2014 at 14:00, Zeev Suraski wrote: >> - We cannot patch 5.6 to add any Warnings-of-any-kind (stable release, >> under release process that forbids that) > > What part of the release process forbids that? None, but I'd still advocate releasing a new minor because there's plenty of anecdata suggesting that our userbase tend to consider 5.x.y and 5.x.y+z to be the same in terms of features. We used to see this confusion in ##php a lot over things like crypt() algorithm support changing over the course of 5.3: trying to explain that you don't want to use anything before 5.3.7 is actually surprisingly difficult, whereas saying "5.4 fixes this" is easy. Adam