On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Evan Coury <[email protected]> wrote:
> These enterprise users will simply have to be feature-frozen and only > receive minor version updates when a security fix is backported, period. > Missing out on new features and (non-critical) bugfixes *after* such a > change is a cost they have already accepted as part of their policy to > limit themselves strictly to distribution-provided packages. > I think it's the gist of the problem. There's also quite lot of assumptions, which basically boils down to: "if they use old PHP versions, it's their problem and they must know and acknowledge all downsides, accept all the risks". Well, it's actually a logical conclusion but the question is: how much do they rely on frameworks such as ZF2 to "shim away" their problems ? If we went this way, on our side, this means very careful PR merging process so backports do receive as many of the upgrades as possible. Not sure how much pain that would be actually :-| @mwop ? > will still be fine to use all of the ZF2 features they've come to depend on up until this point Yes, but those features will slowly diminish with time, as only security stuff will be backported. So basically our decision here means: "no more feature upgrades and bug fixes for you from now on unless you upgrade PHP". -- [email protected] +48 695 600 936 http://thinkscape.pro
