Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:52650 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 64443 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2011 11:12:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Jun 2011 11:12:05 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=pierre.php@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=pierre.php@gmail.com; sender-id=pass; domainkeys=bad Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 74.125.82.54 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: 74.125.82.54 mail-ww0-f54.google.com Received: from [74.125.82.54] ([74.125.82.54:43704] helo=mail-ww0-f54.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 0C/60-61684-38E16ED4 for ; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 07:12:04 -0400 Received: by wwd20 with SMTP id 20so5569306wwd.11 for ; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:12:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=pZIN5BISJFLwykjrv/u/JYvpvd9keISRhAt4A29bAVo=; b=PYHotn/rWsRvbq+6bETq5kVPIrUguF9JUZC6vQuZk2APL12PclWDnrlngcNOkjxeh1 f1mP+A6Df3Co0o4jV7v6cuKJ+/bBlEp45qW7Zi9lo6YMk9JHR0wW/I4qbTKDnfcdxpOO yBthY+g9bot7TGsjJmuv0g/TKJ85mMKnsT+dg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=mgQ6pYNAXsVMMQ8JVuMpDoUyU7jOArUPiMEhEK3Dc+wzcOUxHeXEokUn2d/vbUsdZ2 KM+w2AdQ+ES5Q7jDZxl0bFIKR5TBLr72e+CxQuQPmbwA72yECaIwUm1S8wBc5I4hOJQn SV6ll1bG0JO4VFvAUeC0T+5sEY+as4G9ZX/QY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.236.208 with SMTP id w58mr4617707weq.62.1306926720213; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:12:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.253.168 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 04:12:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4DE61D77.7040506@zend.com> References: <4DE61D77.7040506@zend.com> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 13:12:00 +0200 Message-ID: To: Dmitry Stogov Cc: PHP internals Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Final version, RFC release process From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye) hi, On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Dmitry Stogov wrote: > Hi, > > In my opinion a restriction "API compatibility must be kept (internals and > userland)" for x.y.z to x.y+1.z is too strict. It just can block some new > features forever. btw, new APIs do not break API or API. I do not think we should allow BC breaks between x.y and x.y+1. That's counter productive and prevent users to migrate easily and quicker. That's the whole point of having more frequent releases. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org