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Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 21:21:14 +0100
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To: Karoly Negyesi <karoly@negyesi.net>
Cc: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com>, "internals@lists.php.net" <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for serious BC compatibility aka language versioning
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Karoly Negyesi <karoly@negyesi.net> wrote:

> Care to explain how am I supposed to test all that against 5.5?

Easy, download, install, test locally.

> Obviously you'd need every project owner doing this but they won't
> because their hosts are not even on 5.4 so why would they even think
> of 5.5? (5.4? A lot of people are on 5.2.)

Obviously not, testing your apps against our tests versions is about
contributing to the PHP project and helping the community as a whole.
More on http://qa.php.net. It takes less time than the time you spent
here arguing about all things we do wrong.