Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:30481 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 94377 invoked by uid 1010); 6 Jul 2007 05:30:35 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 94350 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2007 05:30:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Jul 2007 05:30:34 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=johannes@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=johannes@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 83.243.58.163 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: johannes@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 83.243.58.163 mail4.netbeat.de Received: from [83.243.58.163] ([83.243.58.163:35247] helo=mail4.netbeat.de) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 6D/E7-26602-D63DD864 for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:30:33 -0400 Received: (qmail 26592 invoked by uid 507); 6 Jul 2007 05:30:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.102?) (postmaster%schlueters.de@82.135.88.25) by mail4.netbeat.de with ESMTPA; 6 Jul 2007 05:30:04 -0000 To: ceo@l-i-e.com Cc: Alexey Zakhlestin , Pierre , Stanislav Malyshev , Tomas Kuliavas , internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <2169.24.1.37.132.1183693664.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> References: <1181829227.3478.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4677E7B1.2080305@lerdorf.com> <4677F5FB.1070206@lerdorf.com> <4678252F.2050803@sci.fi> <46783212.4020900@lerdorf.com> <34654.216.230.84.67.1183064088.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> <54557.78.61.224.253.1183098089.squirrel@avilys.eik.lt> <4684BB91.4070507@zend.com> <2169.24.1.37.132.1183693664.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:29:14 +0200 Message-ID: <1183699755.14343.5.camel@johannes.nop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 (2.10.2-2.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6? From: johannes@php.net (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=) On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 22:47 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote: > On Fri, June 29, 2007 3:25 am, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote: > > The thing which I don't understand is: why do people want backward > > compatibility that much? > > Because if you run a webhost with a zillion users, half of whom are > screaming for PHP 6, and half of whom are screaming because something > broke, you're a very unhappy company. It is as easy to install two different PHP versions as one with unicode.semantics On and one with unicode.semantics Off since it's PHP_INI_SYSTEM. But depending on that setting you get incompatible, different products with the same name which will just produce way more problems to hosters and developers of software for "PHP 6". johannes