2.8 is not even in rawhide and many packages are not even verified
with 2.8 -- including Drupal 8 [1] which I will be packaging soon.
[1]
http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupal/tree/core/composer.json
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Shawn Iwinski <shawn.iwinski(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Correct... 2.7 is also a LTS version [1][2]. It was originally
>> planned to be the last 2.x release as well as the last 2.x LTS
>> version. See [2] for where 2.8 came from.
>>
>> Not many of my packages use/require 2.8 though so my current plan is
>> to stick with 2.7. We can discuss 2.8 if it is needed though.
>>
>> [1]
http://symfony.com/roadmap?version=2.7#checker
>> [2]
>>
http://symfony.com/blog/transition-from-symfony-2-7-to-3-0-symfony-2-8-on...
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:38 AM, François Kooman <fkooman(a)tuxed.net> wrote:
>> > On 12/09/2015 06:17 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>> >> According to the Symfony website, version 2.8 is the LTS version[1], so
>> >> why 2.7?
>> >
>> > It seems 2.7 is also a LTS version.
>> >
>> > Symfony 2.7 is a long term support version with 3 years support that
>> > was published in May 2015.
>> >
>> > May 2018
>> > End of support for bug fixes
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > François
>>
>
> If you're already making the effort to upgrade to 2.7, you should go ahead
> and bump to 2.8, because it will make it easier for people to make the move
> to 3.2 later. If people wind up developing applications against 2.8 as
> opposed to 2.7, it'll be far smoother because they'll have all the 3.0
> features, too. From what I understand from the blog post, 3.0 differs from
> 2.8 only in that all the deprecations have turned into removals and the
> compatibility layers are gone. It would make sense to have it make it easier
> for them to move to 3.2, right?
>
>
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