PHP 7 is performance wise looking very good, hopefully it comes out later this year: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php7timeline I was thinking about getting a snapshot to dev.gentoo.org, for example: https://github.com/php/php-src/archive/POST_PHP7_REMOVALS.tar.gz And letting it be in portage hard masked for any developer curious to test it. I was able to install it just by using the ebuild for the latest 5.6.x release and replacing libphp5 for libphp7 for Apache2. Eselect-php also needs some customization. It's a major release breaking pecl modules - for example pecl-redis: https://github.com/phpredis/phpredis/issues/508 Maybe this may help building a better PHP 7.
I have plans adding snapshots once the feature freeze is in place. Before then the master branch is a bit too volatile. There are already vagrant images for those who want to test php7.
(In reply to Ole Markus With from comment #1) > I have plans adding snapshots once the feature freeze is in place. Before > then the master branch is a bit too volatile. > > There are already vagrant images for those who want to test php7. Thanks. I was thinking about a small way to advertise gentoo as a great platform for php7 wannabies ;)
AFAIK feature freeze was at March 15. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php7timeline
(In reply to skobk.in from comment #3) > AFAIK feature freeze was at March 15. > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php7timeline Implementation is still ongoing, all the stuff is in the master branch. According to the schedule and RC should be out in 30 days.
There won't be an RC in the next few months, I think. But they will branch off from master and create an alpha sometime soon.
http://php.net/archive/2015.php#id2015-01-11-6: PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 1 Released
(In reply to Tomas Mozes from comment #6) > http://php.net/archive/2015.php#id2015-01-11-6: > PHP 7.0.0 Alpha 1 Released Yeah working on it :)
PHP 7 is in the tree (masked of course)
Fantastic, thanks!
