Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:47438 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 39730 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2010 20:38:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Mar 2010 20:38:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=pierre.php@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=pierre.php@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 74.125.82.170 as permitted sender) DomainKey-Status: bad X-DomainKeys: Ecelerity dk_validate implementing draft-delany-domainkeys-base-01 X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 74.125.82.170 mail-wy0-f170.google.com Received: from [74.125.82.170] ([74.125.82.170:33700] helo=mail-wy0-f170.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id DD/A0-35531-DB0E3AB4 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:38:21 -0500 Received: by wyb36 with SMTP id 36so1793723wyb.29 for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:38:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=yd0arWc3MCRiob9YHeuomSxgoX0NyPgxvoSCIsc/5nk=; b=cR4cL1rRhvIiOShxlv5DDgErIieQzONzBuMKHyALl5zmsbwecUyMzcl/rrOyzhM9HP L6Jeli47VEBhMselgj2NCpSBNOOxpvRgp4A/bUD4DuUNHciYABQHj3dlpX3TNHNflp1m 55wTuEtPhVMgtaRvgn6z/cUXwR2sfUUfGtPSg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=ekuuysn8hJ/MjZ+G6IA/Rx5emMr9ZOc+m4rSwAeRXDthgma2zuyiWPI//Sk6xqueAy zpUDFIeNoYffOj3yOs9xm4wWQxoWoIUYgm4Eh1HgOj0RqR1J24hZSU4/sxOm6IPpCojo 17XVriHhgg+ujIgph4l49FHApbJmav8ss+OV0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.174.129 with SMTP id x1mr964759wel.140.1269031098320; Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:38:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:38:18 +0100 Message-ID: To: sean finney Cc: Andrei Zmievski , PHP internals , Ilia Alshanetsky , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johannes_Schl=FCter?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] svn: /php/php-src/branches/ PHP_5_2/configure.in PHP_5_2/ext/standard/file.c PHP_5_2/main/SAPI.c PHP_5_2/main/SAPI.h PHP_5_2/main/rfc1867.c PHP_5_3/configure.in PHP_5_3/ext/standard/file.c PHP_5_3/main/SAPI.c PHP_5_3/main/ From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye) On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:54 PM, sean finney wrote: > 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 > a branch where the ABI has already changed? =A0I.e. =A0if at some point y= ou > 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. Right, and we have a clear way to do it, increase the middle version number (4.3 > 4.4, 5.2 > 5.3, etc.). Cheers, --=20 Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org