Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:89651 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 25498 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2015 14:12:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Dec 2015 14:12:55 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 178.224.217.99 unknown Received: from [178.224.217.99] ([178.224.217.99:3593] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 5A/14-08340-36244665 for ; Sun, 06 Dec 2015 09:12:55 -0500 To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2015 15:12:45 +0100 Message-ID: References: <90c8ecbc29f8a40a2430306b807a169e@mail.gmail.com> <34e3196bf8babdcc7137190ad17d9c47@mail.gmail.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 178.224.217.99 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 life cycle From: phpdev@ehrhardt.nl (Jan Ehrhardt) Zeev Suraski in php.internals (Sun, 6 Dec 2015 15:24:02 +0200): > From: Jan Ehrhardt [mailto:phpdev@ehrhardt.nl] >> But there must be thousands of extensions out there, that we have no >> knowledge of. For people that have already done a port to PHP7 the next >> one is relatively simple. But porting your first one has a steep >> learning curve. > >That's another good point I didn't think about. For extensions that also have Windows support there is an extra hurdle: the dependencies have to be ported from VC11 to VC14. Your friend Pierre will say: piece of cake. @Pierre: try to compile libgeoip. Unless VC14 SP1 does it better, there is a chance you will run into "fatal error C1026: parser stack overflow, program too complex". -- Jan