Re: Re: [ZEND-ENGINE] cvs: Zend / zend.c zend_execute_API.c zend_hash.c zend_hash.h zend_list.c zend_list.h
| From: | George Schlossnagle | Date: | Thu, 02 Aug 2001 17:50:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [ZEND-ENGINE] cvs: Zend / zend.c zend_execute_API.c zend_hash.c zend_hash.h zend_list.c zend_list.h | ||
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> Yes, I was counting those too... It's still not a very large number
> (probably in the range of dozens, or hundreds at the most, compared to
> hundreds of thousands of users).
Conservative estimates put the APC user community at just below 10,000
people. I'm sure it's not the most popular 3rd party php extension out
there.
>
> Both binary and source compatibility will have good warnings for
developers
> and users (binaries will not load, source will not compile...), so there
> should be no real obscure-crashes type of problems.
I don't think the obscurity of the crash was at issue, just that a minor
version bump-up would break an end-users install at all.
>
> I don't know, it seems to me that bumping a version number because of an
> API change which is transparent to end users is a bit odd, but if most
> people think otherwise, it's very much possible...
>
> Zeev
>