Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-17 Thread Michael Wallner
On 17/12/14 00:45, Andrea Faulds wrote: Hi Pierre, On 16 Dec 2014, at 23:42, Pierre Joye pierre@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 17, 2014 4:19 AM, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Hmm, actually, a 2to3-esque tool and a formal extension of 5.6's support by a year sounds like a better

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-17 Thread Derick Rethans
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: - Rolling out a 5.7 with Warnings-of-any-kind + some little-or-not new features cancels point number one What else ? Do nothing is still (IMHO) the most sensible option IMHO. We're not seeing major compatibility breakages in 7.0 (at

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-17 Thread Zeev Suraski
could you clarify one thing for me? from that sentence it seems that you aren't really against having small new features (as those are already happened/happening in 5.6.x and you did not mention that you have a problem with that) but you think that there would be more/bigger features happening if

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-17 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Am 17.12.2014 um 15:54 schrieb Zeev Suraski: I’m opposed to having a 5.7 release that has new features on top of 5.6.x. Same here; 5.7 should only add deprecations etc. and must not add new features. I also think we should minimize any new work on 5.6.x as much as possible, and focus all

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hey, On 16 Dec 2014, at 07:58, Ferenc Kovacs tyr...@gmail.com wrote: We already has one accepted RFC which targets 5.7, and as I mentioned before 5.7.0 wouldn't be featureless, but would contain the small self-contained features which are currently targeting 5.6.x. So 5.7.0 would be a

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Hey, On 16 Dec 2014, at 07:58, Ferenc Kovacs tyr...@gmail.com wrote: We already has one accepted RFC which targets 5.7, and as I mentioned before 5.7.0 wouldn't be featureless, but would contain the small self-contained

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Lester Caine
On 16/12/14 07:29, Levi Morrison wrote: There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7. I have made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, PHP 5.7, to be released at the same time as PHP 7, with no new features whatsoever. I am wondering why we need

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7. I have made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, PHP 5.7, to be released at the same time as PHP 7, with no new features whatsoever. The hope is that we can put this to a vote in 2 weeks’ time and

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Matteo Beccati
On 16/12/2014 08:55, Andrea Faulds wrote: Could you tell me which RFCs targeted 5.7 and didn’t just add deprecation notices? I’m unaware of any. I've tried to search the ML for such list of RFCs: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/gc_fn_pointer https://wiki.php.net/rfc/secure_unserialize (also 5.6 if

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hey Matteo, On 16 Dec 2014, at 10:52, Matteo Beccati p...@beccati.com wrote: On 16/12/2014 08:55, Andrea Faulds wrote: Could you tell me which RFCs targeted 5.7 and didn’t just add deprecation notices? I’m unaware of any. I've tried to search the ML for such list of RFCs:

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hey Stas, On 16 Dec 2014, at 09:25, Stanislav Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com wrote: There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7. I have made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, PHP 5.7, to be released at the same time as PHP 7, with no new features

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Matteo Beccati
Hi Andrea, On 16/12/2014 12:10, Andrea Faulds wrote: It'd be nice to describe what we have now for 5.7 - i.e. which deprecation messages and other warnings are on the agenda? Doesn't have to be the exclusive list but at least to give the idea what we're talking about. At the moment, there’s

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Matteo Beccati
On 16/12/2014 12:03, Andrea Faulds wrote: I wrote the Closure::call() and intdiv() RFCs. Truth be told, they both targeted master, not a specific PHP version. master has become PHP 7, so whatever the wording of them said, they really target PHP 7 now. They were written back before the whole PHP

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hey Matteo, On 16 Dec 2014, at 11:29, Matteo Beccati p...@beccati.com wrote: This is what I meant when I previously mentioned seeing RFCs targeting 5.7. I understand what you say and I do wholeheartedly agree with you. However if one would have to strictly follow what has been voted,

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Zeev Suraski
-Original Message- From: Andrea Faulds [mailto:a...@ajf.me] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 10:00 AM To: Ferenc Kovacs Cc: Matteo Beccati; Xinchen Hui; PHP Internals Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 Hey, On 16 Dec 2014, at 07:58, Ferenc Kovacs tyr...@gmail.com wrote: We

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Zeev Suraski
-Original Message- From: morrison.l...@gmail.com [mailto:morrison.l...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Levi Morrison Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 9:29 AM To: Xinchen Hui Cc: Andrea Faulds; PHP Internals Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 There has been some debate about whether

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Stanislav Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7. I have made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, PHP 5.7, to be released at the same time as PHP 7, with no new

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Hey Matteo, On 16 Dec 2014, at 10:52, Matteo Beccati p...@beccati.com wrote: On 16/12/2014 08:55, Andrea Faulds wrote: Could you tell me which RFCs targeted 5.7 and didn’t just add deprecation notices? I’m unaware of

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Hey Matteo, On 16 Dec 2014, at 11:29, Matteo Beccati p...@beccati.com wrote: This is what I meant when I previously mentioned seeing RFCs targeting 5.7. I understand what you say and I do wholeheartedly agree with you.

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7. I have made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, PHP 5.7, to be released at the same time as PHP 7, with no new features whatsoever. I am wondering why we need

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Levi Morrison
There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7. I have made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, PHP 5.7, to be released at the same time as PHP 7, with no new features whatsoever. I am wondering why we need that? no new features I think we

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Levi Morrison
I was initially very much in favour of a 5.7 release, but given the current lack of big BC breaks I'm not so sure. I can even run a dinosaur like Revive on PHP7! If the list of BC breaks grows (e.g. PHP4 constructors -- which I seriously hope doesn't pass -- or other big / evil ones), then I

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Zeev Suraski
as you mentioned distros lock in to a specific micro version, so if we introduce this deprecated messages in random micro version, we make it less likely for the users to stumble upon those deprecated messages and it will be also harder for us to communicate the upgrade path: compare: okay, you

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: as you mentioned distros lock in to a specific micro version, so if we introduce this deprecated messages in random micro version, we make it less likely for the users to stumble upon those deprecated messages and it will be

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Pierre Joye
On Dec 16, 2014 9:10 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Andrea Faulds [mailto:a...@ajf.me] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 10:00 AM To: Ferenc Kovacs Cc: Matteo Beccati; Xinchen Hui; PHP Internals Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 Hey

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Pierre Joye
: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7. I have made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, PHP 5.7, to be released at the same time as PHP 7, with no new features whatsoever. I am wondering why we need that? no new

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! I've tried to search the ML for such list of RFCs: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/gc_fn_pointer https://wiki.php.net/rfc/secure_unserialize (also 5.6 if RMs agree) https://wiki.php.net/rfc/closure_apply https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pack_unpack_64bit_formats (targeting 5.6)

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Rowan Collins
On 16 December 2014 16:44:59 GMT, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: as you mentioned distros lock in to a specific micro version, so if we introduce this deprecated messages in random micro version, we make it less likely for the users to stumble upon those deprecated messages and it will be also

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Adam Harvey
On 16 December 2014 at 10:38, Stanislav Malyshev smalys...@gmail.com wrote: I've tried to search the ML for such list of RFCs: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/gc_fn_pointer https://wiki.php.net/rfc/secure_unserialize (also 5.6 if RMs agree) https://wiki.php.net/rfc/closure_apply

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Florian Margaine
Hi list, I think having a minor PHP version for the only sake of adding E_DEPRECATED is kind of pointless to be honest. Historically, PHP (or other languages for the matter, I'm thinking of python) minor versions have brought new features. Adding notices is not a reason for a new version imho.

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Julien Pauli
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Florian Margaine flor...@margaine.com wrote: Hi list, I think having a minor PHP version for the only sake of adding E_DEPRECATED is kind of pointless to be honest. Historically, PHP (or other languages for the matter, I'm thinking of python) minor versions

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hey Florian, On 16 Dec 2014, at 19:55, Florian Margaine flor...@margaine.com wrote: Hi list, I think having a minor PHP version for the only sake of adding E_DEPRECATED is kind of pointless to be honest. Historically, PHP (or other languages for the matter, I'm thinking of python) minor

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Florian Margaine flor...@margaine.com wrote: Hi list, I think having a minor PHP version for the only sake of adding E_DEPRECATED is kind of pointless to be honest. Historically, PHP (or other languages for the matter, I'm thinking of python) minor versions

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Zeev Suraski
-Original Message- From: julienpa...@gmail.com [mailto:julienpa...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Julien Pauli Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:00 PM To: Florian Margaine Cc: Rowan Collins; PHP Internals Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 - We cannot patch 5.6 to add any Warnings

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Adam Harvey
On 16 December 2014 at 13:18, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Hmm, actually, a 2to3-esque tool and a formal extension of 5.6's support by a year sounds like a better solution. If others agree, I might withdraw this RFC. I disagree. 2to3 wasn't a success in the Python world — in the end, the

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Zeev Suraski
-Original Message- From: Ferenc Kovacs [mailto:tyr...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:53 PM To: Florian Margaine Cc: Rowan Collins; PHP Internals Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 please be aware the not everybody agrees on the no new features rule, but from as I

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Adam Harvey
On 16 December 2014 at 14:00, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: - We cannot patch 5.6 to add any Warnings-of-any-kind (stable release, under release process that forbids that) What part of the release process forbids that? None, but I'd still advocate releasing a new minor because there's

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Julien Pauli jpa...@php.net wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Florian Margaine flor...@margaine.com wrote: Hi list, I think having a minor PHP version for the only sake of adding E_DEPRECATED is kind of pointless to be honest. Historically, PHP

RE: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Zeev Suraski
-Original Message- From: a...@adamharvey.name [mailto:a...@adamharvey.name] On Behalf Of Adam Harvey Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 12:10 AM To: Zeev Suraski Cc: PHP Internals Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 On 16 December 2014 at 14:00, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Adam Harvey
On 16 December 2014 at 14:19, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: -Original Message- From: a...@adamharvey.name [mailto:a...@adamharvey.name] On Behalf Of Adam Harvey Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 12:10 AM To: Zeev Suraski Cc: PHP Internals Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
- Rolling out a 5.7 with Warnings-of-any-kind + some little-or-not new features cancels point number one What else ? Do nothing is still (IMHO) the most sensible option IMHO. We're not seeing major compatibility breakages in 7.0 (at least not at this time), to the level that

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Zeev Suraski z...@zend.com wrote: -Original Message- From: Ferenc Kovacs [mailto:tyr...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 11:53 PM To: Florian Margaine Cc: Rowan Collins; PHP Internals Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7 please

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Pierre Joye
On Dec 17, 2014 4:19 AM, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Hey Florian, On 16 Dec 2014, at 19:55, Florian Margaine flor...@margaine.com wrote: Hi list, I think having a minor PHP version for the only sake of adding E_DEPRECATED is kind of pointless to be honest. Historically, PHP (or

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-16 Thread Pierre Joye
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Hi Pierre, On 16 Dec 2014, at 23:42, Pierre Joye pierre@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 17, 2014 4:19 AM, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Hmm, actually, a 2to3-esque tool and a formal extension of 5.6's support by a year

[PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-15 Thread Andrea Faulds
Good evening, There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7. I have made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, PHP 5.7, to be released at the same time as PHP 7, with no new features whatsoever. The hope is that we can put this to a vote in 2 weeks’ time

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-15 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hi Adam, On 16 Dec 2014, at 00:15, Adam Harvey ahar...@php.net wrote: On 15 December 2014 at 16:09, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: The RFC can be found here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php57 Thanks for the taking the initiative on this. On timing: I think we should release 5.7 in

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-15 Thread Kris Craig
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Hi Adam, On 16 Dec 2014, at 00:15, Adam Harvey ahar...@php.net wrote: On 15 December 2014 at 16:09, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: The RFC can be found here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php57 Thanks for the taking the

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-15 Thread Xinchen Hui
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Good evening, There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7. I have made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, PHP 5.7, to be released at the same time as PHP 7, with no new features

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-15 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hi Xinchen, On 16 Dec 2014, at 04:07, Xinchen Hui larue...@php.net wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Good evening, There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7. I have made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5,

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-15 Thread Levi Morrison
There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7. I have made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, PHP 5.7, to be released at the same time as PHP 7, with no new features whatsoever. I am wondering why we need that? no new features I think we can

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-15 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hi everyone, On 16 Dec 2014, at 00:15, Adam Harvey ahar...@php.net wrote: On 15 December 2014 at 16:09, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: The RFC can be found here: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php57 Thanks for the taking the initiative on this. On timing: I think we should release 5.7 in

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-15 Thread Matteo Beccati
On 16/12/2014 05:07, Xinchen Hui wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Good evening, There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7. I have made a very simple RFC. It proposes a final minor version of PHP 5, PHP 5.7, to be released at the same

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-15 Thread Andrea Faulds
Hi Matteo, On 16 Dec 2014, at 07:52, Matteo Beccati p...@beccati.com wrote: On 16/12/2014 05:07, Xinchen Hui wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Good evening, There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7. I have made a very simple RFC.

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] PHP 5.7

2014-12-15 Thread Ferenc Kovacs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Matteo Beccati p...@beccati.com wrote: On 16/12/2014 05:07, Xinchen Hui wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:09 AM, Andrea Faulds a...@ajf.me wrote: Good evening, There has been some debate about whether to make “PHP 5.7. I have made a very simple RFC. It