On Wednesday, 2 August 2017 19:01:34 UTC+2, Woody Gilk wrote: > > > This would require >= PHP 7 > > That's a non-starter. There are plenty of people stuck on PHP 5.x for > various reasons and I don't want to shut them out. >
PHP 7+ was more than 53% <https://seld.be/notes/php-versions-stats-2017-1-edition> of composer usage last May, and PHP 5.6 only at 31%. This PSR is yet to be released and by the time it is those numbers will be even more in favor of PHP 7. Nowadays I would rather see PSR pushing innovation on new tech (including language syntaxes), rather than being stuck in the past and spending more time to deal with compatibility than what it is worth. Also this specific PSR is all about new way to do things. I don't think future adopter would be the guys who are stuck with PHP 5, but rather the one who are already on PHP 7.1 today. As I am sure you are aware, major projects are moving to PHP 7 only. Doctrine will require 7.2 <https://github.com/doctrine/doctrine2/issues/6529>, ZF3 requires 7.1 <https://framework.zend.com/blog/2017-06-06-zf-php-7-1.html>, Symfony 4 will require 7.1 <https://twitter.com/fabpot/status/851558576770252800?lang=en>, TYPO3 8 requires 7.0 <https://typo3.org/download/>, to name only a few. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PHP Framework Interoperability Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to php-fig+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to php-fig@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/php-fig/715fe4dd-6c95-4964-9f9c-e725e9752dd9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
