Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [VOTE] Minimum supported versions for PHP 8.6

Hi

On 2026-07-20 19:24, Jakub Zelenka wrote:
> I don't exactly understand why that Autoconf section does not mention 
> that
> it is not available on distro levels for RHEL 8 and 9 so it makes 
> things
> difficult for packagers like Remi who explicitly asked to delay it:

The proposal clearly specifies the minimum versions for various distros.

> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/21159#issuecomment-4287762254 ? 
> This is
> quite strange because you even linked Tim's question and considering 
> that

The question has been left unanswered. Since the only reply was a vague 
“I prefer to wait”, I proceeded with writing the RFC.

> the Remi's preference is to delay, it obviously means that there are 
> likely
> some plans to package 8.6 for those distros and this change will just 
> make
> it harder. I don't see reason to rush it to 8.6 and make life harder 
> for
> packagers so I voted no.

I consider being able to properly rely on C11 functionality to be worth 
it. Generally speaking, compilers on operating systems that don’t have 
autoconf 2.71 likely also don’t (fully) support C11, the lack of a 
modern autoconf is really just a canary there.

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus