Patrick Schaaf in php.internals (Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:36:33 +0100): >Now with PHP 7 promising potential for incompatibilities in a lot more >areas, it would be, to us, a really useful option to have a 5.7 that is >operationally fully compatible with 5.6 with added E_DEPRECATED for things >bound to break. With that we could A) rub the developers' noses in the >relevant deprecation messages for a while, _and_ run one or more rounds of >one-of-the-production -server tests, gathering more deprecation messages >there without fear of user visible effects.
I fully agree with you. Not only for migrating our own code a version with deprecation warnings would be helpful. But I think that such a version would also be a big help for migrating frameworks like Drupal ans Wordpress. If you want a move to PHP7 you have to make their migration path smooth. Jan -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
