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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 21:23:50 +0100
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To: Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>
Cc: PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>, Aaron Piotrowski <aaron@trowski.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][Vote] Throw Error in Extensions
From: danack@basereality.com (Dan Ackroyd)

On 30 June 2016 at 01:32, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's not a language change, so doesn't seem to meet the criteria for
>> needing a 2/3 pass rate.
>
> It is changing the core like ext/standard and other core functions.

That's true, but doesn't appear to be the required test. From the Voting RFC:

> a feature affecting the language itself (new syntax for example) will be considered as 'accepted'
> if it wins a 2/3 of the votes. Other RFCs require 50% + 1 votes to get 'accepted'.

Although the core functions ship as PHP they aren't part of the
language, so 50% + 1 seems to appropriate.

cheers
Dan