On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Stephen Zarkos wrote:
> From: Hannes Magnusson [mailto:[email protected]]
>
> > I was hoping for yes/no vote - which case I would have voted +1 and
> > we could work on better approach for the extensions in time for the
> > 6.0 release which this clearly is the start of.
>
> Two years from the release of 5.6.0, 5.5 will be EOL and extension
> developers can just focus on compat with 5.6+ and 6.0 (assuming we
> ever see it). At that time it would be nice IMHO if 5.6+ and 6.0 were
> as similar as possible, starting with this RFC.
EOL in userland has no meaning. With many distributions on PHP 5.3 or
5.4, and commercial users even older version (we have to maintain 5.2
support for now f.e.) it's really not as simple as saying that "when 5.5
is EOL, we can just focus on 5.6+ and 6.0. This is not Utopia.
cheers,
Derick
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