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To: Florian Anderiasch <ml@anderiasch.de>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] net_get_interfaces()
From: danack@basereality.com (Dan Ackroyd)

On 26 November 2017 at 16:28, Florian Anderiasch <ml@anderiasch.de> wrote:

> if this simply doesn't work on some OSes for
> no good reason.. that's a pretty leaky abstraction.

Cool. Does that mean that we can drop support for 32bit builds if
leaky abstractions are an important thing?

> Looks good in theory, but without a lot of thought, how likely is this
> to break/work on "supported" operating systems?

It's likely to work on platforms that have the C functions
implemented. Which is the level of guarantee that PHP aims for; "If
the platform implements a feature, PHP will expose it, but won't
always go out of its way to work around missing features".

> just because there's one year of time and "we have no CI for that" is
> not a good excuse in my book.

If this is important to you, please step up and do something about it.

If it is only of just enough importance to you that you send an email
to this list, asking other people to do a shedload of work to satisfy
your vague feelings, then as Sara said, committing it now gives people
a whole year to find issues with it, and then we can take action
against known issues, rather than worrying about unknown unknowns.

cheers
Dan
Ack