Newsgroups: php.doc,php.internals,php.pecl.dev Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.doc:969365332 php.internals:13984 php.pecl.dev:1682 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 12798 invoked by uid 1010); 2 Dec 2004 17:06:38 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 7398 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2004 17:05:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO colo.lerdorf.com) (66.198.51.121) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 2 Dec 2004 17:05:04 -0000 Received: from DELL (c-24-6-109-102.client.comcast.net [24.6.109.102]) by colo.lerdorf.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Debian-18) with ESMTP id iB2H4ZjU025155; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:04:35 -0800 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 09:04:41 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) To: Philip Olson cc: Marcus Boerger , Friedhelm Betz , Sean Coates , Andi Gutmans , phpdoc@lists.php.net, internals@lists.php.net, pecl-dev@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: X-X-Sender: rasmus@lerdorf.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-DOC] Re: [PHP-DEV] SimpleXML marked as EXPERIMENTAL From: rasmus@php.net (Rasmus Lerdorf) On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Philip Olson wrote: > > > As long as we are in "dropping EXPERIMENTAL Mode": > > > Shouldn't we drop EXPERIMENTAL from php4 domxml living in PECL? > > > AFAIRC once Cgristian Stocker said, it is stable, obviously no API > > > changes will happen etc. > > > Any reason not to drop EXPERIMENTAL from docs and pecl source for domxml? > > > > Please don't drop it there because that would sooner or later mean that > > people will start using it a lot. The idea was to drop domxml once we > > have dom - we have dom now. > > Experimental is not a synonym for Deprecated. It sounds > like DomXML is deprecated and not experimental. Since dom is only for php5 we can't deprecate domxml in php4 without deprecating all of php4 which would be a bad idea. -Rasmus