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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Is the "No BC Breaks in Minor Releases" policy
 enforceable?
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> it into 7.0 is plain wrong and only creates problems. Everyone is always
> so concerned about breaking something if someone proposes some
> deprecation but in such cases nobody cares.

Because it's not about how it's proposed, but is about what impact it
will have on users. If you try to deprecate feature that is widely used,
you'd get a lot of pushback. If you try to change something that nobody
is using and nobody should be using, you'd get little to no pushback.

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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com