What is the future of this project? about aura.sql

[brandonsavage]

@iansltx 4.0.0 and 5.0.0 have both been tagged and pushed. Thanks for the suggestion. Please let us know if there's anything else you need.

[harikt]

Hi,

I have created a separate issue to discuss about the future of aura packages. If you guys can contribute it will be great. auraphp/bin#13

Regarding the documentation, we need to update the bookdown links in the auraphp.github.com repo. I can do that when I get sometime.

[brandonsavage]

I confirmed today that this package at HEAD does run on PHP 8.0.9 (all tests green). We need to do a few things to make this package great again:

• Release a 3.0.1 or 3.1.0 with PHP 8 compatibility.
• Set up GitHub actions to build the project
• Have a discussion about dropping support for unsupported or old versions of PHP (I'm thinking 7.1 and below).
• Determine what, if any, new features should be built into the package.
• I also recommend a Docker development environment that can build and run all versions of PHP we support so we can run the tests in all of them.

I'm happy to help work on this, though I'm not interested in owning it.

[r4ndsen]

Please let us know if there's anything else you need

yes, please adjust the return types to reflect the actual behavior of the underlying pdo object:
#194 (comment)

[harikt]

Hi guys,

I guess this has been addressed to some extend.

We will be having 3.x which will work upto 8.1 once #209 is merged. And also 5.x for those who are in 8.1 .

The tests are all running on github CI for many months now.

As this is an opensource project anyone can step in and send PR . I hope any of the members of our team will try to address it.

Thank you.

[rotexdegba]

Thank you. I will look into future contributions to this and other aura packages I am familiar with.

[koriym]

This repo has a CI test with php8.
https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Sql/blob/3.x/.travis.yml#L22

[rotexdegba]

This repo has a CI test with php8.
https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Sql/blob/3.x/.travis.yml#L22

There should be a php 8.0 entry below here

Aura.Sql/.travis.yml

Line 9 in c12e9f0

- 7.4

[koriym]

Not officially supported with PHP8 at the moment.
Feel free to fix it and make a pull request. Contribution appreciated.

[kenjis]

Have a discussion about dropping support for unsupported or old versions of PHP (I'm thinking 7.1 and below).

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

See auraphp/Aura.Cli_Kernel#12 (comment)

[brandonsavage]

I think this makes a lot of sense. We'll also need to discuss end of life for ancient branches. I would suggest that once the oldest version is out of support for 3 years we consider a 2 year end of life period. That would make the Aura 2.x packages end of life in 2019, which means we would issue one final release of this package under 2.x and call it a day. 3.x would get support until December 31, 2023. What do you think?

[iansltx]

So at this point we have versions that works with 7.2-8.1 (4.x) and 8.1+ (5.x). Question is, what's preventing us from tagging those? I think 4.x can be tagged as 4.0.0 now as it's a bridge version so folks can, without deprecation warnings, run the same lib version in 8.0 and 8.1, and doesn't need any additional functionality. Just bumped our codebase to 5.x and I'd like to drop @dev from that if we can.

[tbreuss]

Is the documentation regarding all this tag and php version stuff up-to-date?

[brandonsavage]

Since these changes were internal modifications only and test updates, there was no need to change the documentation. As far as I'm aware the behavior remains the same.

[harikt]

@r4ndsen #194 is merged and 5.0.1 is released. This note is for reference only.