Re: [PHP-DEV] Planning ahead, will 8.5 exist and major version decisions (was: Deprecate functions with overloaded signatures)

2023-05-16 Thread Jeffrey Dafoe
> [2] I am sure lots of userland people and other people will have >opinions also. I just don't think they will be as insightful or useful >in this conversation. Userland here and I agree with you completely. My opinion is that the maintainers should decide, since they bear the burden of the

Re: [PHP-DEV] Planning ahead, will 8.5 exist and major version decisions (was: Deprecate functions with overloaded signatures)

2023-05-16 Thread Rowan Tommins
On Tue, 16 May 2023 at 13:39, Dan Ackroyd wrote: > > * Are there any things being worked on that would deserve or require a > major version bump in PHP? > I think there are two conflicting ideas of what a major version should be: a) A major version is an ad hoc event that happens when

[PHP-DEV] Planning ahead, will 8.5 exist and major version decisions (was: Deprecate functions with overloaded signatures)

2023-05-16 Thread Dan Ackroyd
On Sat, 13 May 2023 at 00:08, Larry Garfield wrote: > > I am actually tempted to propose that we do deprecations at the very > start of a release, 9.0 and 9.1 only, and then not allow them for the > rest of that major, for that exact reason. That sounds really unwise. People aren't that