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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 23:27:59 +0200
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
Cc: Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com>, Rafael Dohms <listas@rafaeldohms.com.br>, 
	Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com>, Remi Collet <remi@fedoraproject.org>, 
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] BC break in 5.4.29 and 5.5.13
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> And where is the limit?
>
> We define the limit.
>
>> Add a full extension is fine too? No, it is not.
>
> Depends on the extension. Adding new extension to core may be not
> warranted, because you can just as well put it on PECL. So it's not a
> good example - you can't just put a new function or parameter on PECL.
>
>> It reintroduces the pain to add dozen minors version checks for php
>> version dependencies.
>
> You don't need version checks. You need functionality checks. You'd need
> them anyway if you want to support multiple versions.

you need both, and it is painful.


-- 
Pierre

@pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org