Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:106168 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14336 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2019 15:23:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 28.ip-149-56-142.net) (149.56.142.28) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 8 Jul 2019 15:23:40 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (Authenticated sender: thruska@cubiclesoft.com) with ESMTPSA id 4FAA63E88F To: Zeev Suraski , Nikita Popov Cc: Stanislav Malyshev , Kalle Sommer Nielsen , Internals References: <09a8bba3-d17a-a8e5-f9b7-cc3d65f1e66c@gmail.com> Message-ID: <1abce338-acf8-366f-5462-e51f208605ca@cubiclesoft.com> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 05:43:00 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Deprecations for 7.4 - specifics From: thruska@cubiclesoft.com (Thomas Hruska) On 7/8/2019 4:55 AM, Zeev Suraski wrote: > Why are we proactively making the lives of users more difficult for > literally no gain at all? > > Zeev Because that's what software developers tend to do when they are bored. Instead of focusing on API stability, squashing bugs and other generally mundane, boring, but rather important tasks that tend to get overlooked, they focus on what interests them personally: Cool features, re-inventing existing functionality because one tiny thing irks them but no one else, and there's even a level of jealousy, greed and possibly some malice in the mix too. -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President I've got great, time saving software that you will find useful. http://cubiclesoft.com/ And once you find my software useful: http://cubiclesoft.com/donate/