Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:82136 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 66392 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2015 11:47:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Feb 2015 11:47:15 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=php@beccati.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=php@beccati.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain beccati.com designates 176.9.114.167 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: php@beccati.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 176.9.114.167 spritz.beccati.com Received: from [176.9.114.167] ([176.9.114.167:43541] helo=mail.beccati.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 40/A6-24707-57C47D45 for ; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 06:45:59 -0500 Received: (qmail 11184 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2015 11:45:54 -0000 Received: from home.beccati.com (HELO ?192.168.1.202?) (88.149.176.119) by mail.beccati.com with SMTP; 8 Feb 2015 11:45:54 -0000 Message-ID: <54D74C68.6070402@beccati.com> Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 12:45:44 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Marston , internals@lists.php.net References: <54D606D2.7030102@lsces.co.uk> <54D73248.9030509@lsces.co.uk> <14.24.24707.48937D45@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <14.24.24707.48937D45@pb1.pair.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Dragging the legacy users forward. From: php@beccati.com (Matteo Beccati) On 08/02/2015 11:24, Tony Marston wrote: > Well said. If it is not possible to have a single codebase that runs in > both PHP 5 *AND* PHP 7 then that will be a total disaster. Of course you can have a single codebase running both on PHP5 and PHP7, unless you want to use PHP7-only features. But that doesn't mean that any codebase that currently runs on PHP5 will keep working on PHP7 without any changes. Most of the "modern" codebases probably will though. Cheers -- Matteo Beccati Development & Consulting - http://www.beccati.com/