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To: Benjamin Eberlei <kontakt@beberlei.de>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Turn gc_collect_cycles into a function pointer
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Benjamin Eberlei <kontakt@beberlei.de> wrote:

>
> I agree, this change makes sense this way and is compatible to the way
> hooks work right now. This change can be part of the grand refactoring
> later on.

7.0 is indeed the best time to do it.

> Refactoring the whole extension API is a bit time critical anyways, if we
> won't find a champion for this in the next days/weeks then it won't happen
> for 7.0 and then by definition (BC breaks) not for any version in 7.*
> branch.

This is not correct. The BC break clause applies only for userland.
While we try to avoid big APIs change between x.y and x.y+1, we do
allow them.

However I worry much more about what we do (not) for userland and some
bigger changes internally, those that will be very hard to sell for
7.x.

> Expanding the scope of this too much will end up as failure.


-- 
Pierre

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