Re: [RFC] Reclassifying engine warnings

It's essentially tech debt, and the language has allowed its users to accrue a ton of it. The longer that's allowed (deprecations/warnings prolong the issue in my opinion) the harder it will be to fix the issues. On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 10:56, Rowan Collins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 August 2019 15:22:22 BST, Matthew Brown <matthewmatthew@gmail.com> > wrote: > >Looking at our notice logs, I estimate (fairly roughly) that it would > >require about a week's worth of my time to fix these issues > > I honestly thought you were posting that as an argument against. A week of > resource (plus the accompanying QA impact etc) is a significant investment > for many organisations. That's why it has the potential to delay adoption > of a new version, and why a long lead-in via deprecation or opt-in is > necessary. > > Regards, > > -- > Rowan Collins > [IMSoP] > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >