Re: Re: [ZEND-ENGINE] cvs: Zend / zend.c zend_execute_API.c zend_hash.c zend_hash.h zend_list.c zend_list.h

The work which will have to be done is the author, not all of the users. So the 10K number is not all that relevant. At 10:50 02/08/2001, George Schlossnagle wrote:

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

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