Re: Proposal

At 00:48 29/07/2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

I'm against a global function like this, but in favour of the 2nd flavour, where you have to explicitly pass a list of variable names to import. Actually, I mostly had something like: import_globals("ES") in mind for the import all variety. Importing all server and environment variables when there are no external variables imported should not generate an E_NOTICE.

If we go down that route it's ok. I was talking about the import_globals("P") example, which in my opinion should not work, and import_globals("P", "*") which should work, but generate an E_NOTICE.

And jumping to 4.1 for only a config file change seems a bit odd.

It looked odd to me as well, but after thinking about it for a while, it looks by far the most right thing to do: - There are no technical drawbacks whatsoever - It'll make much more noise than a 4.0.x, and make many more people realize the difference and do something about it, rather than just upgrade and do nothing. - We finally make use of a x.1 version :) I think that other than the psychological issue that we're not used to bumping the miniversion digit for almost anything, there's no reason not do it. If we end up having a semi-major version before 5.0 (which I doubt, considering the way things are going now), we can always release 4.2. Zeev