Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:46579 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 94101 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2009 09:04:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Dec 2009 09:04:34 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=stas@zend.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=stas@zend.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain zend.com designates 63.205.162.117 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: stas@zend.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 63.205.162.117 us-mr1.zend.com Received: from [63.205.162.117] ([63.205.162.117:47648] helo=us-mr1.zend.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id ED/3A-12956-1296C3B4 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:04:33 -0500 Received: from us-gw1.zend.com (us-ex1.zend.net [192.168.16.5]) by us-mr1.zend.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD6C439B4 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:07:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.27.1] ([192.168.27.1]) by us-gw1.zend.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:04:30 -0800 Message-ID: <4B3C691D.1060208@zend.com> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:04:29 -0800 Organization: Zend Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Lightning/1.0b2pre Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: <2dedb8a0911161713m5d8c3d3dma5013968d11f586f@mail.gmail.com> <61.16.26502.5C1673B4@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <61.16.26502.5C1673B4@pb1.pair.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Dec 2009 09:04:30.0622 (UTC) FILETIME=[43398BE0:01CA89F8] Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP6's future From: stas@zend.com (Stanislav Malyshev) Hi! > The PHP 5.3 compatibility issue for the Drupal CMS > (http://drupal.org/node/360605), for example, had over 200 comments, and > it took about 9 months before a patch was committed to the current > version of Drupal in September (see comment 158). That's not the only > example, but it's a prominent one that comes to my mind. it looks like their issues were primarily caused by: 1. Relying on exact text of error messages 2. Using runtime by-ref passing (which one definitely shouldn't do) -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Software Architect stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ (408)253-8829 MSN: stas@zend.com