On 14 December 2014 17:31:52 GMT, Leon Sorokin <leeon...@gmail.com> wrote: >This sounds like a reasonable compromise to me and infinitely better >than doing nothing. However, if 7.0 complains loudly enough about this >already quasi-deprecated pattern, then the incubation period for an >eventual fix need not be that of a decade-out major version, but of a >7.x point release. Oddly, 5.4 is a good example of a much larger >incompatibility changelog than the provisional one for 7.0: >http://php.net/manual/en/migration54.incompatible.php
5.4 is a good example of what we *don't* want to do with minor versions. It consisted of a messy list of "those bits of the abandoned 6 which didn't quite make it into 5.3". If we want major features more often, we can have major releases more often. This figure of 10 years gets mentioned a lot, but with annual releases, it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect 8.0 by 2020 (a year after 7.4). -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
