Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:18858 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 20698 invoked by uid 1010); 14 Sep 2005 02:30:29 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 20683 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2005 02:30:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Sep 2005 02:30:29 -0000 Received: from ([127.0.0.1:20718]) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with ECSTREAM id 0C/3A-41173-54B87234 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:30:29 -0400 X-Host-Fingerprint: 203.41.13.159 unknown Received: from ([203.41.13.159:20117] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id E5/06-41173-E5387234 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:56:46 -0400 Message-ID: To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:56:43 +1000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <43276022.6020702@encode.net.au> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 203.41.13.159 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0 From: leigh@eon.com.au (Leigh Makewell) Pierre Joye wrote: > No, 4.3.x is a dead branche. But the problem is much more easier to > fix in 4.4.0. Do what you always do in production servers, do not > display errors/notices, especially as 4.4.0 raises only notices for > the reference problem. > > Regards, > > --Pierre Well that is exactly why this is a problem. Making large changes that break BC in php 5 is fine because there are two versions that are being maintained, php4, and php5. Security updates are made to both. However, breaking BC between 4.3 and 4.4 when 4.3 is a dead branch causes can cause some problems for system admins. What happens if the software being used is never updated to 4.4? There are important security updates that need to be applied, but they can't apply them because all of their websites will stop working. Oh and not displaying the error doesn't make the error go away :p