JMSSerializerBundle 2.0 minimum requirements

[goetas]

In JMSSerializerBundle 2.0 I'm planning to drop support for:

• PHP 5.X versions. This means only 7.x will be supported
• Symfony 2.x version. This means only 3.x (and most probably 4.x) will be supported
• Complete HHVM support drop

HHVM was looking to be a pretty important project, but after PHP7 show up, HHVM faded a bit. It this true or is just my impression?

see 2.0...2.0-min-deps

Any feedback on this decision?

(Backward incompatible changes between 1.x and 2.0 are in UPGRADING.md)

[lbayerl]

looks fine - but is there any specific usage of PHP 7 functionality? because usually I don't see why 5.6 shouldn't be supported as long it's supported and there's no need to use new language features in the bundle

[goetas]

the initial idea was to have a chance to add new features to the serializer using new php7 improvements in the subsequent 2.x releases...

but looking at the development in the serializer 2.0, i was considering keeping the bundle compatibile with 5.6 at least

Anyway the bundle does really few things, so being compatible with the widest set of php versions might be a good idea

[goetas]

decided to stay with the current minimum requirements