On 14.12.2016, at 16:15, Dennis Clarke <dcla...@blastwave.org> wrote: > > On 12/14/2016 06:35 AM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: >> Hi >> >> On Dec 14, 2016 12:23, "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecke...@gmx.de> 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
Yes, you do. PHP 7.0.0 was released a year ago. > and push through this > or the 5.6.x version will be dropped with no valid replacement that 5.6 will receive security fixes for another 24 months. > 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. It appears to be, from looking at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67229, but that affects PHP 5 as well, not just 7. David -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
