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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Please reconsider supporting PHP 5.2
From: h.reindl@thelounge.net (Reindl Harald)

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Am 25.07.2010 11:17, schrieb Karoly Negyesi:

> This is a very interesting decision as 5.3.0, compatibility wise, is a
> major release. I always felt it was PHP 6.0 but it was not called so
> because there was a development branched called that (which was later
> abandoned).

This is simply not true

A clean designed application has to run the whole time with
error_reporting =3D E_ALL | E_STRICT and so you should have seen
the problems long ago

> This broke Drupal 6 big time and while core has been fixed, contrib is
> a bit slower to adapt. Previously, it was possible to pass in simply
> NULL if you did not care about the by-reference argument.

The problem is that the developers of drupal, joomla, wordpress
are not working error_reporting =3D E_ALL | E_STRICT as i do since
teh first day i use php even on production servers

While 122 installations of our own software throwing up to 10
warnings a month many other software rides a DOS-attack against mysql
if rsyslog is using a database

> Also, the deprecation of ereg will affect Drupal 6 over its lifetime
> as the module install / enable functionality uses ereg in a way that
> can't be fixed: as it is not on a performance critical code path noone
> bothered to rewrite the truly ancient directory scanning function
> which takes an ereg as it's argument earlier. And we can't break APIs
> in a minor release so this can only change in Drupal 7 which is poised
> to be released in a few months.

Seems that you do not understand what deprecated means?
See that such calls are using a @ before to not make crazy
peopole like me with thousands of warnings and you have time
enough to clean your code

> Then there is the date_default_timezone_set / date.timezone snafu.

If this is a problem the sysadmin did not his job
date.timezone =3D "Europe/Vienna" in php.ini exists
since years an dshould be set in all clan server setups


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