Is there a roadmap for official support PHP 7 for Magento 1?

Question

Is there a roadmap (or will there be in the near future) for official support for PHP 7 for Magento 1.x?

I know there is a community extension for making it compatible. And I know about the several PHP 7 topics here. But I am specifically wondering about official support, it would make the process a bit more convinient.

EDIT: I am looking for an official source or statement or maybe a post from the core team or something. In other words a source which is less opinion based.

Answer 1

The most official statement I got is from user KAndy (M2 core developer) in "Is Magento ready for PHP 7?"

Also, support of php 7 in Magento1 require backward incompatible changes and I think will be not supported officially.

Answer 2

Magento will be supporting Magento 1.x probably for the next couple of years. But most likely it'll be a security only form of support - officially it doesnt support 5.6 and PHP 5.5 is EOL now so I would not anticipate any official PHP7 support for Magento 1.x

The module you have mentioned I have used on a few projects with mostly a good success of doing so.

Some additional reading:

https://community.magento.com/t5/Version-Upgrades/What-is-the-end-of-life-date-for-Magento-1-9x-community-edition/td-p/36541

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