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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 5.6 life cycle
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

On 14/12/15 23:43, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> I'm not sure what you mean here by "should be". If you mean "if
> everybody dropped everything right now and started only working on
> upgrade to PHP 7 then they could make it in 20 months" - yes, it is
> reasonably true. But nobody would do that. In fact, in many places base
> version is still 5.3. Again, we can talk that people "should" do this
> and "should" do that until we're blue in the face, but that's not going
> to happen, whatever we talk about. Only one of the two things is going
> to happen:
> 1. People would run 5.x in 2017 as supported version and get the fixes.
> 2. People would run 5.x in 2017 as unsupported version, get no fixes and
> suffer from it.

From my own perspective, the question is if people actually need to
update from PHP5.3 TO 5.6. Processing 5.2 to 5.3 and up to 5.4 is still
the sensible upgrade path and it's just as easy THEN upgrading straight
to PHP7 so currently I see any debate on 5.6 as academic since so few
people are currently 'stuck' with that version? There is little that
causes a normal roll over to the next version and the current user base
is already on that cycle?

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