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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 21:54:38 -0800
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To: Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] ZEND_ENGINE_2 define
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

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On Jan 2, 2015 12:24 PM, "Sara Golemon" <pollita@php.net> wrote:
>
> I realize that ZE3 is not ZE2, but I always saw the ZEND_ENGINE_2
> define as more of a "At least ZE2" so that code of the form:
>
> #ifdef ZEND_ENGINE_2
>   newAPI();
> #else /* ZE1 */
>   oldAPI();
> #endif
>
> Would continue making sense (modulo newNewAPI() in ZE3, of course).
>
> Was the ZEND_ENGINE_2 define removed on purpose? Or as an accidental
> side-effect of a mass update to "We're ZE3 now!"

Afair  on purpose.

And I prefer it this way. Many changes are so subtle that we may have way
too many bad bugs in exts if ze2 or later is used. IMHO :)

Cheers,
Pierre

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