# Binary strings from 6 in 5.2?

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/26627
- Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/26627
- Started by Sara Golemon on 2006-11-15T21:07:01+00:00
- Messages: 2
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## #26627 — Sara Golemon — 2006-11-15T21:07:01+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/26627#26627

ceo@l-i-e.com wrote:
> 
> > […]
> 
> How many sysadmins and other decision-makers out there aren't adopting
> PHP5.x, much less 6.x, because we've changed too many things too
> quickly in BC-incompatible ways?
> 
> *THAT* is what is slowing the adoption rate, not the applications
> developers not WANTING to use the better code.
> 
> It's the fact that one cannot easily migrate code.
> 
> And while it's trivial for some to set up 5 on another machine and
> proxyhost or whatever, for many folks, that's not really an option.
> 
> I didn't even read the patch, but unless it's guaranteed NOT to break
> anything at all in php4 (yes, 4, not 5):
> -1
> 
I agree with you 100%.  You didn't read the patch.

This isn't introducing a BC break, it's lessening the severity of one 
that already exists.

And yes, I /can/ guarantee that it won't break existing scripts.

-Sara

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## #26672 — Richard Lynch — 2006-11-20T19:02:42+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/26627#26672 · In reply to: #26627

> I agree with you 100%.  You didn't read the patch.
>
> This isn't introducing a BC break, it's lessening the severity of one
> that already exists.
>
> And yes, I /can/ guarantee that it won't break existing scripts.

Excellent!

Now it just needs a ton of documentation at the 5.y point where it
goes in to explain how this feature that one generally associates with
the 6.x series works in 5.y but not in 5.(y-1) and we're all set...

Otherwise, we have to spend all our time answering questions about why
this script with the new stuff only sometimes works in PHP 5...

I think it's a great idea to provide the migration facility, but it's
GOT to be documented in big bold letters at whatever version it goes
"in" to avoid massive amounts of questions.

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