Notes for discussion moving forward

[harikt]

Hi all ( who all are the maintainers of the repo)

Some notes copied from auraphp/Aura.Cli_Kernel#12 (comment) by @pmjones

1. The Aura 3.x series was for PHP 5.6 and later.
2. The Aura 4.x series is for PHP 7.2 and later.
3. I imagine a 5.x series, if you want to start one, should be for 8.0 (or perhaps 8.1?) and later.

#Below are some of the Suggestions

Unittest and compatibility

If we want to support 3.x, we should probably use https://packagist.org/packages/yoast/phpunit-polyfills . This will help us to move forward very easily with PHPUnit tests.

Releases

Earlier releases were using the bin script provided in this repo. But iirc, things were not working in 8.x versions. So may want to use producer or according to what you guys follow. Producer is throwing errors in 8.1. So either we need to fix it.

Notify on google group on releases

When new releases are tagged, it may be better to notify the google group.

[harikt]

I have been thinking, if we can support 3.x version of aura upto 8.1 via the help of polyfill, we should drop 4.x series of aura. But start fresh with 8.1 as we can utilise the language level features which will be 5.x.

Supporting 4.x for 7.x series seems not right at this point. The 7.4 support for security releases will end on 28 Nov 2022.

[koriym]

I thought that the main reason we have a 4.x branch is that one version of phpunit cannot cover a wide range of PHP versions. (It's a pity that phpunit breaks backwards compatibility). If that can be solved with proper polyfill in 3.x (instead of homemade polyfill), I think @harikt has a good point.

[koriym]

It has been more than 10 years since the first release of Aura, but it has not lost its value of a solid, minimalistic code set with no dependencies.

What people are looking for in an Aura project today is its continuity rather than new features with new PHP versions. I think continuity without breaking backward compatibility is key.

[harikt]

Aura.Router can target 3.x than 4.x if we can use the polyfill.

Aura.Session have not released a 3.x , so probably we can skip 3.x and move 4.x .

This is what I think for the current two. There are other packages we can explore if you guys agree with it.

[koriym]

Aura.Session have not released a 3.x , so probably we can skip 3.x and move 4.x .

What about update 3.x and skip 4.x ?

[harikt]

@koriym that will also be helpful for people who use 2.x. So yes I am okay with that.