Re: [VOTE] 64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer

From: Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:46:23 +0000
Subject: Re: [VOTE] 64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Arvids Godjuks wrote:

> 2014-01-31 Derick Rethans <[email protected]>:
> 
> > On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Anatol Belski wrote:
> > >
> > > So with next major you mean you would abandon the 5.x support in your
> > > exts, as it's too much?
> >
> > No, absolutely not. Right now, we have to support 5.2 to 5.6—I think I
> > even support 5.1 for Xdebug. But with this change, the 5.6 compatible
> > code is drastically different from the 5.2-5.5 ones.
> 
> 5.3 is in the EOL phase and is not maintained at this point. It's EOL 
> ends in June. So with 5.6 all you have to maintain is 5.4 to 5.6 . 
> Remember - no more than 3 branches at one time are supported.

My commercial customers as well as my current employer disagrees. 
Whatever "php.net" decides not to support anymore has no impact on the 
commercial world. There is a lot more custom extensions out there than 
you probably expect.

> > Uhm, the current situation works just fine. I wouldn't call this 
> > technical debt. I am also not saying that this branch is not a good 
> > thing—but so would be "consistent function naming" or "case 
> > sensitive function/method names"—and we're not never going to get 
> > these either.
> >
> 
> Sorry, it's not a technical dept? As a userland developer, I had my 
> moments cursing the PHP developers in general for not properly working 
> PHP in 64 bit environment.

PHP works just fine a proper 64-bit environment.

cheers,
Derick

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