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To: Julien Pauli <jpauli@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Top 10 Pecl extensions PHP7 compatibility
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

hi,

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Julien Pauli <jpauli@php.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> Had a discussion with Rasmus today.
>
> It would be cool if we could have a PHP7 compat of our top-10 Pecl
> extensions before our first PHP7 RC.
>
> This will allow more people to help testing both PHP7 (some people may need
> some of the top-10 pecl ext to run their apps) and those extensions.
>
> Someone for a quick list ?
>
> - Memcached
> - Gearman
> - Apcu
> - http (Mike already did it ?)
> - ??
>
> I obviously will help porting some of them.

I am not a big fan of such top lists as it covers only part of the needs.

More importantly, what's about the porting strategy?

New branch, #ifdef hell or separate files? Separate or common releases?

Using pickle, almost everything is possible from an install/update
point of view, support for install from VCS makes the new branch(es)
option easier too. However we have to define what we would prefer to
do.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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