Re: Re: PHP 7.4 Release Manager Selection

From: Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:50:27 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: PHP 7.4 Release Manager Selection
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Den 2019-03-19 kl. 17:53, skrev Sebastian Bergmann:

Am 19.03.2019 um 17:43 schrieb Joe Watkins:

At least I'd like someone to explain in detail why we should extend support
for 7.4?


Seconded.

For us the extended support of 5.6 has been very beneficial.

Primarily for two reasons:
- A large legacy code base that took time to fix.
- Adaption of third-party tools takes time. For instance latest
  version of smarty that we use, still gives error messages for
  PHP 7.3 (a standard plugin).

I don't expect the above to change going from 7.4 to 8.0. Of
course it depends on the 8.0 features and BC breaks.

Also looking at the 7.4 content it seems quite attractive! So
given that we don't yet know uptake of 8.0, 7.4 could have
a long lifespan.

Another point is that when looking in the control panel for
our server that incorporates PHP, 5.6.40 is listed as outdated.
If it had been a year ago instead (no extended support ), then
it would have felt weird since 5.6 has executed flawlessly in
2018 for us.

Finally, given that the extended support for 5.6 has been quite
a success, having the same for 7.4 seems prudent at this point
in time.

r//Björn L

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