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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Bringing users along ...
From: rasmus@lerdorf.com (Rasmus Lerdorf)

On 07/30/2012 01:02 AM, Lester Caine wrote:
> Having just been helping another unsophisticated user, the growing
> problem of incompatibility between versions is starting to hit harder.
> So can developers please start taking a little more care with the
> support of existing users!

Lester, we get it. Your job is to maintain and support legacy code and
you are grumpy about it. You have posted about it repeatedly for years.
And as much as you don't think we do enough, we actually put a lot of
emphasis on not breaking backward compatibility. But it is always a
trade off. Every new feature, bug fix or security fix introduces some
level of backward compatibility issue. We try to minimize those BC
breaks, but they will continue to happen. You will just have to  find a
way to manage it.

-Rasmus