Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:54868 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 5920 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2011 11:44:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Aug 2011 11:44:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=pierre.php@gmail.com; sender-id=pass 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 74.125.83.42 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 74.125.83.42 mail-gw0-f42.google.com Received: from [74.125.83.42] ([74.125.83.42:35897] helo=mail-gw0-f42.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id E3/5B-48631-634E45E4 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:44:54 -0400 Received: by gwb17 with SMTP id 17so1024207gwb.29 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:44:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=pRbt+Hr5JWNDbPuiFuiuLdBy/xls0n/SXIIcwk0V/Zw=; b=LeAdmGCq6PG49hSnjOAUUiQxYk/BbettLb5FrPHFH8ZK/YI93lRTel4nYdpPmqxCPO L1Omb1Rd0sYEJmT4qNdnyYn7ihGLcZz45AfH+AvJNouL0qkAVN9GRAbxRvlr1ADhqfMZ utnj1mRUk58x1KOaWvUrTVgtkW4vuy4C3VsSE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.160.9 with SMTP id i9mr5446387ybe.29.1314186290497; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:44:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.147.168.5 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:44:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <887FE7CFF6F8DE4BB3A9535F53AFD06A495AAE17@il-ex2.zend.net> References: <1314115682.2635.98.camel@guybrush> <4E545A6C.60704@akbkhome.com> <4E54C658.6070209@akbkhome.com> <887FE7CFF6F8DE4BB3A9535F53AFD06A495AAA2F@il-ex2.zend.net> <887FE7CFF6F8DE4BB3A9535F53AFD06A495AAE17@il-ex2.zend.net> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:44:50 +0200 Message-ID: To: Zeev Suraski Cc: "internals@lists.php.net" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 5.3.8 Released! From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye) On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Zeev Suraski wrote: >> No matter what it is or how it is defined by us, it breaks existing code and that >> should be avoided in bug fixes releases like 5.3.7/8. > > Pierre, > > This wholesale statement doesn't get us anywhere. It does, we underestimate the situation and this fix/improvement/consistency change breaks apps and codes out there. And I do not consider it as acceptable at this stage in 5.3.x. Let do it only in 5.4. > Every bug fix can result in breaking existing code. Not every, and here it is easily fixable. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org