[RFC] Improve compatibility with legacy versions #151
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Improving compatibility with old versions is totally ok if that does not limit your future changes. Are you sure PHP5.3/5.4/5.5 are really important to support? |
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@nick4fake I think we all agree that this is a highly political topic and I believe most of this has been discussed in reactphp/reactphp#374 (comment) (another others) already. The gist here is that using outdated versions is most likely a bad idea – however, older versions do no currently block or limit us on what is planned for the stable v1.0.0 release. As such, there are no immediate plans to drop support for any older versions, which allows consumers of our packages to safely update without having to worry about this for now. In case anybody is still wondering: We highly recommend running a supported version of PHP (which again is explicitly documented in each components' install instructions). |
Because why not… :-)
Now more seriously: This project is a low level lib that is used as a building block for quite a few higher level abstractions on top of it. As such, compatibility (even with significantly outdated versions) is a major concern to me.
Note that I'm not suggesting putting significant amount of work into this. The patch is already here and, personally, I see little harm in supporting this.
Also note that I'm not suggesting we need to keep support indefinitely. Should this ever turn out to be a burden in the future, e.g. because we actually require any new language features or some external lib, then I'm all for dropping support again. If you want to discuss this further, I would suggest directing this to reactphp/reactphp#374 instead 👍