Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:97404 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 3749 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2016 18:13:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Dec 2016 18:13:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=me@daveyshafik.com; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=me@daveyshafik.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain daveyshafik.com from 209.85.213.171 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: me@daveyshafik.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.213.171 mail-yb0-f171.google.com Received: from [209.85.213.171] ([209.85.213.171:35227] helo=mail-yb0-f171.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 48/3F-21185-1DB81585 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:13:38 -0500 Received: by mail-yb0-f171.google.com with SMTP id d128so22438980ybh.2 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:13:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=daveyshafik-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc; bh=BCgwAmwx4GtOhB8ml1oMIGzUT2MM9/+V1IZ7MnJ0RyY=; b=mLrP8AC3A897+hEh/RpqJMEJW0QlBzaDa22Cce7xZIRRP4CJnnIz6fA31HdtIXoX4b j1PqAIug1lxA7TaB4Wz5KJ7q8nnDBeA3DO/FIuG03oJVb9Zbtjxh4vThOXV+DioxMVAv NxMo0w/szAc2u+8LuHch/3ppdlV0dNNOaoPtTYUEFw2QHjnxLekcDfLm76m8IYZi+uCn cYXRlLa76UzmQ+Zs1eo2OLvPCohvh3+pmF61obLZxOoLz6PsMOvhJSKylpBXCg/a8zVz cwMeFBL2BihDMaE5e3FEXcZXGQgCLieRoOhoFTE70E91QTRc7pwuXdFZeSZzX299Phwd VIEw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=BCgwAmwx4GtOhB8ml1oMIGzUT2MM9/+V1IZ7MnJ0RyY=; b=f+ZO+/b2dfUuonndq1xJ9MpHlcqhvlC7E2YbhonhsVMb2h7Vy4gEde/3kohJy0ALnF CpUdRJVE2lMbwPFTJ+/9oFP77dh03r9Pq3L4FX1AZycznPsS4zWcReLCdaJQGuIJ9g3b chgfItaQtMdX+AWsDH8H971exIhB8Cpd4+Iju+5w5SgThev40RfP6lFJfrOYidGzwwFI zlUUfnjm/l6wueZjsXxkmhXdsMx+w0T0GK6RuJ6AGViP5A3O8raS2kHREB03sz/Z4DZQ aKE+6iFElfcRjK6O0nXry+cmazN7qLmhXs+fRNDlGfgp/frHaIbi3JQ3kqn+IzEBS8tv Q+/w== X-Gm-Message-State: AKaTC03sIYdoaUsIz8aUswYr7HMp7GQ2RSyKL5gpOgAc9TJtUHNiFQU2jObySx5ZBMUKHhP8msegGvNY/97E2wml X-Received: by 10.129.51.204 with SMTP id z195mr96300842ywz.352.1481739214522; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:13:34 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: me@daveyshafik.com Received: by 10.129.160.147 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:13:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:13:34 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: GfytU8XEPqOPvO9BQQejwhZpQxc Message-ID: To: Dennis Clarke Cc: "internals@lists.php.net" Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1142216e883f890543a24bbb Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.6 end of active support From: davey@php.net (Davey Shafik) --001a1142216e883f890543a24bbb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > On 12/14/2016 06:35 AM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: > >> Hi >> >> On Dec 14, 2016 12:23, "Christoph M. Becker" wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> The end of active support for PHP 5.6 is documented to be on December, >>> 31th[1]. Does that mean that there'll be no further release with >>> "normal" bug fixes (but only security fixes)? >>> >> >> Yes, 5.6 was extended to compensate for 5->7 adoption afair from an rfc >> >> > This is entirely too soon. At the present moment neither of the PHP 7.0 > releases will compile clean on a strict POSIX environment. At all. The > version 5.6.x tree is perfectly stable and works out of the box without > an endless compile nightmare whereas 7.0.14 and 7.1.0 won't even > compile. I guess I need to file more bug reports and push through this > or the 5.6.x version will be dropped with no valid replacement that > works in a strict environment. Perhaps the gcc compiler is an absolute > requirement and if that is true then the code isn't acceptable to any > other compiler regardless if it is C99 compliant or otherwise. PHP 5.6 isn't EOL for a further two years, you should be fine. - Davey --001a1142216e883f890543a24bbb--