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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Reference handling change and PHP 4.4.0
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Leigh Makewell wrote:

> 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.

I doubt any application would really stopped working - except for a 
friendly notice when people wrote bad code.

Derick

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