Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:27573 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 88264 invoked by uid 1010); 21 Jan 2007 23:12:34 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 88249 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2007 23:12:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Jan 2007 23:12:34 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=addw@phcomp.co.uk; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=addw@phcomp.co.uk; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain phcomp.co.uk designates 213.152.38.186 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: addw@phcomp.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 213.152.38.186 freshmint.phcomp.co.uk Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from [213.152.38.186] ([213.152.38.186:61497] helo=mint.phcomp.co.uk) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 44/D1-06092-163F3B54 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:12:33 -0500 Received: from addw by mint.phcomp.co.uk with local (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1H8lrS-0004ZK-Dx; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:12:30 +0000 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:12:30 +0000 To: Rasmus Lerdorf Cc: Paul Reinheimer , internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <20070121231230.GX2136@mint.phcomp.co.uk> References: <45B29E2E.5070808@iamjochem.com> <185335524.20070121004953@marcus-boerger.de> <6ec19ec70701210941w154746e8p7faabf18c74a45b1@mail.gmail.com> <45B3F260.60807@lerdorf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45B3F260.60807@lerdorf.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: Parliament Hill Computers Ltd Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Is this what Stefan Esser was referring to ...? From: addw@phcomp.co.uk (Alain Williams) On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:08:16AM +1100, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > From a bigger perspective, the reason we prefer people to not use the > PHP name for their projects, especially modified versions of PHP itself, > is that in the extreme case we want to avoid someone releasing PHP 7 on > us. That would confuse a lot of people. For better or worse, if > someone is using PHP they are using code we have control over, so when > they report a bug or describe a problem we have a pretty good idea about > how to go about fixing it. If they are using a heavily modified version > of PHP, then it becomes much harder for us to figure out what is going > on and by asking people to come up with their own brand for such > modifications it becomes obvious to everyone involved that there is a > different codebase involved. It is a difficult problem and we need to take care before adopting a stance on it, look what happened with the Debian firefox/iceweasle debacle. > -Rasmus -- Alain Williams Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php #include