Support Symfony 7, drop doctrine/annotations?

[tacman]

Symfony 7 is now in beta.

I think the biggest change will be in listeners v subscribers. If the next version only supported 8.1+ and Symfony 6+, we could migrate to attributes.

We could also drop doctrine/annotations as a dependency then.

[tacman]

Symfony 7 is now in RC2, and will be released within the next 3 days.

What do you think of at least bumping the minimum requirements for Symfony to 6.3?

        "symfony/cache": "^5.4|^6.0",
        "symfony/dependency-injection": "^5.4|^6.0",
        "symfony/http-kernel": "^5.4|^6.0",
        "symfony/security-core": "^5.4|^6.0",
        "symfony/framework-bundle": "^5.4|^6.0",

I can help with testing, and can probably provide some PR's, but I was hoping the maintainers could set up a branch with the minimum requirements first. My preference is to only support PHP 8 so that everything can be done with attributes, and PHP 7 is at EOL. Perhaps a Version 3 of DoctrineBehaviors that just supports PHP 8.1 / Symfony 6.4/7.0? There hasn't been a release of this excellent package in over 2 years (Aug, 2021).

[tacman]

Hi, Symfony 7 is now out. What's the best path to support it?

[abdellahrk]

Hi @tacman, this is a call for concern with this nice package. Symfony 7 is not supported.

[jfsenechal]

Hi,

On my fork

https://github.com/jfsenechal/DoctrineBehaviors/tree/sf7.0

• Symfony 7 compatible
• Use AsDoctrineListener instead of EventSubscriberInterface (require doctrine/doctrine-bundle min version 2.7.2)
• Use Symfony\Bundle\SecurityBundle\Security

All tests passed

To use it in your project add

"repositories": [
    {
      "type": "vcs",
      "url": "https://github.com/jfsenechal/DoctrineBehaviors"
    }
  ],
{
    "knplabs/doctrine-behaviors": "dev-sf7.0 as 2.6.3",
}

I hope my work can be used

https://github.com/jfsenechal/DoctrineBehaviors/commits/sf7.0

[tacman]

Thanks, @jfsenechal I'll give it a try this week.

As I mentioned before, I'm pretty convinced this is worthy of a new release, 6.4||7.0, and eventually supports the new Doctrine.

Perhaps you can be added as a maintainer.

[jfsenechal]

I am willing to help you contribute according to my available time.

[ovidiuenache]

Any update on this one? Is someone working on it or should I go ahead and create a PR?

[sgry]

What's the status here? Symfony 7 compatibility would be great.

[AlexOstrovsky]

any update on this?

[CoalaJoe]

I asked KNP and they confirmed that they will be working and releasing an update. But no estimations on when so far.

[Gemineye]

Any news?

[denton1985]

Latest release is : 2021Aug 9. https://github.com/KnpLabs/DoctrineBehaviors/releases Package is dead? Not maintaned. Use for your own risk.

[tacman]

best bet is to start with https://github.com/jfsenechal/DoctrineBehaviors, but ideally @jfsenechal would become a maintainer and simply release a new version with the higher PHP requirements and of course Symfony 7.

And the new dbal/orm from doctrine are out, ideally this package would support, or at least allow the newer versions.

[budzik]

@tacman +++

[tiapnn]

+++

[jgrygierek]

:(

[tacman]

@jfsenechal can you please rename your fork and publish it on packagist?

This happened with the gedmo extensions for a while as well, and then eventually the changes were merged back, but it was a looong time, to the point that even the Symfony documentation referenced the fork.

Alternatively, if you become a maintainer, please publish a release asap, bump the version if there's an issue with BC.

Thanks!

[tacman]

Since I'm constantly forgetting how to install jfsenechal's fork, here's a cut-and-paste solution:

composer config repositories.jfsenechal_doctrine_behaviors '{"type": "vcs", "url": "git@github.com:jfsenechal/DoctrineBehaviors.git"}'
composer require knplabs/doctrine-behaviors:"dev-sf7.0 as 2.6.3"