On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Matthew Weier O'Phinney < mweierophin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Woody Gilk <woody.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> This would require >= PHP 7 > > > > That's a non-starter. There are plenty of people stuck on PHP 5.x for > > various reasons and I don't want to shut them out. > > > >> you loose some type hinting > > > > Also a non-starter for me, static typing is good and we should keep it. > > Question for the list: what are folks' thoughts on shipping TWO > versions of interfaces in a single specification? > > What I mean is: it would be tremendously useful to be able to define > PHP 7 STH and RTH within the interfaces; this essentially ensures that > any implementations that do not return the specified RTH will raise an > engine error. > > Clearly, we cannot do this for interfaces that target PHP 5 still, but > considering that we specify the return types for the interfaces > already, it seems we _could_ provide two different implementations of > the interfaces, one targeting each version. These could be released as > separate minor versions of the associated library (e.g., 1.0 would > have the PHP 5 interfaces, 1.1 would have the PHP 7 interfaces). > Consumers and/or implementors would then choose which version they > support. > > Thoughts? > I think two MAJOR versions would be correct, as adding types could be a breaking change: PHP5+ version 1.0.0 PHP7+ version 2.0.0 -- Woody Gilk http://about.me/shadowhand -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PHP Framework Interoperability Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to php-fig+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to php-fig@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/php-fig/CAGOJM6Juu9wvynJmmPF7zgX3q-afvZHeQnxULoO0N4vtofqDeg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
