Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:47996 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 39416 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2010 20:38:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Apr 2010 20:38:30 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=larry@garfieldtech.com; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=larry@garfieldtech.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain garfieldtech.com from 76.96.30.56 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: larry@garfieldtech.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 76.96.30.56 qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net Received: from [76.96.30.56] ([76.96.30.56:51422] helo=qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 97/D9-20775-4CAC8CB4 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:38:29 -0400 Received: from omta17.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.73]) by qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 6DFC1e0061afHeLA6LeTfJ; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:38:27 +0000 Received: from earth.ufp ([98.220.236.211]) by omta17.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 6LeS1e0094aLjBW8dLeSgd; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:38:27 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by earth.ufp (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30E4D7A4A for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:38:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from earth.ufp ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (earth.ufp [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1pk1261YhZjV for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:38:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from luna.localnet (unknown [12.190.142.178]) by earth.ufp (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CED8DD79F2 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:38:24 -0500 (CDT) To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:38:23 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-20-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <1271408519.4615.89.camel@guybrush> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <201004161538.23534.larry@garfieldtech.com> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Removal of deprecated features From: larry@garfieldtech.com (Larry Garfield) On Friday 16 April 2010 05:23:42 am Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > I think that the hosting providers will do notice, and either not migrate, > or send a mail to their users, warning to check their settings because if > they are depending on the magic quotes, they will be in danger. > > So I think we don't have to wait for the shared hosting providers, because > they will catch up as slow or fast as we go. Given how long it took them to catch up to PHP 5 in the first place I don't think we can count on that. Such breakage should come in large chunks so that hosts only have to wring their hands once every so often. Otherwise they just won't upgrade ever. Most run on very thin margins. --Larry Garfield