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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE][RFC] PHP 5.7
From: mailing@pascal-martin.fr ("Pascal Martin, AFUP")

On 07/01/2015 01:44, Andrea Faulds wrote:
> The voting widget and RFC can be found here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php57
>

Hi,

We've discussed this RFC with other members of AFUP and while opinions 
have been expressed for both "yes" and "no", it seems we are at about 
2/3 of "yes" -- which means we would be +1.

Note, though, we are mostly a community of users (which means we 
generally have a point of view of "users") -- and there aren't many PHP 
contributors amongst us.


Trying to summarize what we have said, on the +1 side :

  * PHP 5.x would be maintained (especially, it would receive security 
fixes) for one additional year, which would be a good thing for those 
who will not update to PHP 7 soon (and there are some -- still, not sure 
they would update to PHP 5.7 either)
  * Notices / deprecation warnings could help making the migration to 
PHP 7 easier (once you've migrated to the last 5.x minor version and 
fixed a few things, you'll know migrating to the next major should not 
be too hard)

And, on the -1 side :

  * Even if there is no PHP 5.7, we already have something like 2 years 
left before PHP 5.6 stops getting security fixes -- and, taking a look 
at current versions usage, if one doesn't upgrade in 2 years, they 
probably won't upgrade in 3 years either.
  * Things that will break for PHP 7 will be indicated by the migration 
guide (and there are some automatic helper tools for some)
  * There are not that many PHP contributors -- which means having PHP 
5.7 and PHP 7 more or less in parallel might slow PHP 7 down (not only 
for the initial release, but also for maintenance and evolutions later).

-- 
Pascal MARTIN, AFUP - French UG
http://php-internals.afup.org/