Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:70222 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 2381 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2013 10:16:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Nov 2013 10:16:35 -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 209.85.217.179 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: pierre.php@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.217.179 mail-lb0-f179.google.com Received: from [209.85.217.179] ([209.85.217.179:38793] helo=mail-lb0-f179.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 24/E2-20870-10C8C825 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 05:16:34 -0500 Received: by mail-lb0-f179.google.com with SMTP id l4so4618864lbv.38 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 02:16:30 -0800 (PST) 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=0WeGBRjS1SUzX0aLILZ0QUsQx07QaIVgapa8CmPxpPI=; b=r3jfqeCvnQDMZUGSK2Le9Pk47nbqPet2f8YqVKFj10+j3620bPrLUO6AF8XtN2p9Ue BL9V2AXXYRpiLcCD9E7q2Hi2zetdwH6lw86ZwYylWR9y1cgJcM7t6fqyXXB9UhpB7Bm0 csIOnSmuwL8usXoEYFslu6Z1CWtX48WE1jQxdTe/eMTf8xk6FCd9Mss/15Ui0n/x+vUD 53s6AmpCzBDIQ/Iz7sO0Mm25pyVCFuRMawG+0tDH5f3epbrCL1UJuVK44oirjgIL+PLj /l6T/fjZSssVVikbU5qbw/I5tT6QEYSQIK0AfUx6Zc2mEz698cegjnWMAfj5IkaZpD5i vAhQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.140.193 with SMTP id ri1mr5331lab.18.1384942590801; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 02:16:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.112.157.33 with HTTP; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 02:16:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 11:16:30 +0100 Message-ID: To: Jonny Stirling Cc: Nikita Popov , PHP internals Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Making "backwards compatibility" discussions more constructive From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye) hi, On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Jonny Stirling wrote: > Refusing anything that causes a BC break except for major releases makes > sense, until you remember that PHP's major releases have a tendency to last > 8-10 years if not longer. That's a pretty long time to wait for potential > enhancements / sane changes to the language isn't it? Please check 5.4.0 and 5.5.0 new features. That's not like there were no improvement. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org