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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:19:20 +0200
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To: Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Vote results
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 July 2011 10:05, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 17 July 2011 10:08, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Remove magic quotes
>>>> --------------------
>>>> Votes: 54 total, 21 PHP Core, 33 community
>>>> For removal: PHP group support: 18 (85%), community: 32 (96%)
>>>>
>>>> Again, 3 people voted against: derick,salathe,zeev. Any comments?
>>>>
>>> Like everyone else, I want to see MQ gone for good. The reason for the
>>> no vote was simply that the meaning of "remove magic quotes" was not
>>> made clear. No RFC was linked on the main page, simply "Drop magic
>>> quotes". Would the process be following Philip's RFC from 2008 [1]
>>> based on the internals discussion "adieu a la magie" [2], or a total
>>> removal of anything and everything about magic quotes as originally
>>> posed in that internals thread, or something else entirely?
>>
>> The idea is obviously to remove it as we planed already to do it in
>> the old trunk. Keeping BC for clean code, those relying on the mq
>> functions to check if mq is on or off (returning always off).
>
> Yes, that was obviously the idea, not to remove or drop magic quotes
> at all but instead set, and enforce, the value to be off. Thanks for
> clarifying that entirely too late.

Too late? If you did not follow any of the internals in the last 7
years, then yes, we clarified that late...

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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