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From: seanius@seanius.net (sean finney)

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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:37:09PM +0100, Pierre Joye wrote:
> While wondering what was the reasoning behind this commit, I came to
> the conclusion that we should not do such thing in stable branches and
> we should respect something we decided long time ago, to stop to add
> bad options which can break PHP ABI or BC in one way or another. It is

or maybe at least queue it up in a branch for "BC breaking review", or in=
=20
a branch where the ABI has already changed?  I.e.  if at some point you
must break the API/ABI, you can then shuttle in the rest of the changes
that you would have wanted but had deferred for this reason.

> especially important as we all know how distributors tend to deal with
> such options.

well...  it's not like we go making such changes just for the heck of it
you know.  it's just that keeping cross-distro binary compatibility isn't
really a high priority for most open source projects, and it wouldn't
be for PHP except for certain non OSS products that depend on it :)

but i'm not arguing against the principle of your argument, though. just
making some armchair suggestions/commentary.


	sean

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