Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:62778 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 14867 invoked from network); 4 Sep 2012 06:05:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Sep 2012 06:05:56 -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 209.85.210.170 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.210.170 mail-iy0-f170.google.com Received: from [209.85.210.170] ([209.85.210.170:48386] helo=mail-iy0-f170.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F4/C5-17715-24A95405 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:05:54 -0400 Received: by iamm10 with SMTP id m10so9524410iam.29 for ; Mon, 03 Sep 2012 23:05:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=x3ktfQfasCNBY+ieWEhp5NTY1Robzo0aX68coWMeDME=; b=tEjSsKtDqET1w7P5y0G9VaJcoe7yQhkgqOURyTQxw+gtKu0+Px7raBZcq8DedvZszk ASWD8DeL1HLaWrqlGe9iyXARNd+/sphTDj5OkiDb4Cu3F7YrfugP1yJOA708QZWwosxC INxeTB8ca4dN89vPTUjMKyqfm2uNPbA+B6DCkXvm/d/YzsLs0g/LKs/HdIF4c7iOweBY WF3R7VlG6rin5S68nTlmmtIDMAu1b+YnQDxETe9yc/vhFoKBOodLW8/ftladr90e00MQ k/EkZ594AiJxmNPy14O7o6UiqVYrLltxhucCt2KgF6DxdbP0yYpcHfSOkHiOePR7Bg7u Rl/w== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.31.5 with SMTP id x5mr16683800icc.40.1346738751435; Mon, 03 Sep 2012 23:05:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.60.40 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Sep 2012 23:05:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <504527E8.2010900@sugarcrm.com> References: <5042C04A.2040104@sugarcrm.com> <504527E8.2010900@sugarcrm.com> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 08:05:51 +0200 Message-ID: To: Stas Malyshev Cc: PHP Internals Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Release scheduling, branching & NEWS for 5.4 From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye) hi Stas! On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: >> And no BC in 5.5 as well. Which will cause us some issue for 5.5 as >> master actually has BC breaks as far as I remember. > > We accept binary API changes in 5.5, Right, that's totally fine. > but only very slight PHP-level API > changes (such as removal of functions like logo GUIDs). I'm not sure about that one, but generally speaking backward compatibility breaks are not allowed, no matter which. > Another important point - any such change that may influence PHP > developers should be in UPGRADING file. Including adding functions, > arguments, options, etc. - this will help to keep it properly documented > too. Anything should be there imo :) Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org