Hi all, Would it not be lovely to have, say, two new constants, that contain the date (ISO, UTC, I guess) of when the running PHP series will be end-of-maintenance and end-of-life?
Of course PHP_VERSION_SERIES_EOM_DATE and PHP_VERSION_SERIES_EOL_DATE are a little verbose, but... It would be really useful for e.g. code check systems, tools like Composer, hosting platforms, to inform the user of an upcoming or past EOM/EOL date, without having to maintain a list of these dates separately (by copying from, or scraping, php.net/eol.php). Does that sound useful to anyone? It would of course be problematic in cases where the EOL date is yet to be determined, or changes later (as it happened with the 5.6 extension), but given that there would still be newer releases after such a case, where the value of the constant(s) could then be updated, that'd probably not be so problematic. Trivial? Not? Great? Bad? RFC worthy? Regards, David -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
