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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.2.5 and static calls
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Pierre,

Saturday, March 1, 2008, 8:53:26 PM, you wrote:

and yeas after several years of trying to communicate and never gotten
anything back? I have told PREAR development a million times to fix code.
Now not even PEAR code is wrong but it is copied into endless amounts of
code. So it seems ignorance is bliss is what our userbase is doing. So I
need to do the same, no? On the other hand Rasmus and I spent a lot time
getting this right without affecting users to much and we infact did
encounter things that lead to bigger issues and I am not introducing tons
of workarounds.

marcus

My name is Marcus
> Hi Marco,

> On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Marcus Boerger <helly@php.net> wrote:
>> Hello till,
>>
>>   we changed the behavior as much back as we need be. Fact is that this has
>>  been an oversight. It has been a bug we just fixed. As an eagreement we
>>  decided not to mark all of these as fatal. We might do so in later versions.
>>  However we have been mentioning this for years now. Fix the damn code. If
>>  you are not willing to do so, then imo you should just stick with older
>>  versions.

> On a case by case basis, the code may be fixed, we all agree on that.

> But this answer is not acceptable. Can you seriously ask someone to
> stick to versions with security fixes only because of our strictness
> breakages? I can accept (does not mean that I agree) a change to fatal
> between 5.2 to 5.3 for example- But it must not happen between two
> patches releases (I say must instead of should, as it is a must to do
> break code in this case).

> Cheers,
> -- 
> Pierre
> http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org




Best regards,
 Marcus