PHP 8 compatibility for the 6.x branch

[rutgerrademaker]

As upgrading to 7.x is not really straight forward AND there is no stable release for 7.x yet, it would be great to see PHP 8 compatibility for the 6.x branch.

It might just be as simple as just replacing "^7.2" by "^7.2 || ^8.0" in https://github.com/deployphp/deployer/blob/6.x/composer.json

I get the focus is on 7.x but if this idea is supported I could open a PR and see what the impact on the rest of the codebase would be (if any)

[antonmedv]

if any

You can try. But there will be much more problems. One solution is to use phar v6

[rutgerrademaker]

Thanks for the quick reply, and the suggestion! Our main issue is that we do a composer require deployer/deployer in a lot of places to get the phar installed Will just give it a try and let you know

[kiropowered]

@rutgerrademaker hi, we also can't upgrade php version because deployer v6 is stuck to php7. Did you have any trouble removing deployer from composer and using the phar on PHP8 ?

[rutgerrademaker]

@kiropowered I did not try to go the phar way yet, as in our situation it's not really easy to accomplish Instead I'm trying to figure out how much work it would be to actually make 6.x compatible You can see my progress over here > https://github.com/deployphp/deployer/compare/6.x...rutgerrademaker:deployer:6.x

[rutgerrademaker]

I gave it a try and opened this PR > https://github.com/deployphp/deployer/pull/3189 Great chance I missed something, but for me this seems to do the trick until we have adopted deployer 7

[antonmedv]

Some Symfony dependencies also only php7.