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Are you willing to drop support for PHP 7.4 and Laravel 5.x/6.x/7.x for v2? Since they are not supported anymore.

Even Laravel 8.x has support until January 24th, 2023

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There's this in the official documentation.

(*) Supported PHP versions

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Thank you @wilsenhc for the information. I think it's safe to drop support for PHP 7 and Laravel 5-7. Will work on it in my spare time. Please let me know if you'd like to help.

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@kkomelin Looks like a much better approach to just restrict the versions in the composer.json

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For your information @wilsenhc, I decided not to change config defaults. So we should be ready for 1.18.0

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Hi @wilsenhc,

That's a good question. We need to see what we would get from that action.
If not much, then better to follow the "don't break what is working" principle.

What do you think we would get if we drop support for PHP 5.6 and other previous versions?

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The opportunity to use newer language features from PHP 8.x and having to maintain for less framework versions is a good enough reason to drop support for older versions.

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The opportunity to use newer language features from PHP 8.x and having to maintain for less framework versions is a good enough reason to drop support for older versions.

@wilsenhc It's good enough reason for you maybe but from the business point of you it's not. I need some visible improvement. What will dropping support of older versions give our users? For example, speed, UX improvement, etc.

I don't support older versions, they just work because they are stable enough. Currently the maintenance takes max 1h/mo on average from me. How can you reduce it even further?

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Even Laravel 8.x has support until January 24th, 2023

@wilsenhc Could you please give me a link to the Laravel release pipeline where I can see what version of PHP they support?

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Yes, of course I'd like to help out in any way I can

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That's great of you @wilsenhc. Thank you.
Would you be willing to review the Github actions in order to remove unnecessary PHP and Laravel versions from them? If so, let's move our discussion to this issue #76

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I think we may not need a major version actually because we can restrict supported php/laravel versions through composer.json. It means that users on old PHP or Laravel won't be able to update the package to a newer version - composer will take care of that.

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Here we go https://github.com/kkomelin/laravel-translatable-string-exporter/releases/tag/1.18.0
@wilsenhc Please test and let me know if anything goes unplanned. And thanks again for your effort!

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