Re: 5.0.5, BC break, fatal error
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:34:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: 5.0.5, BC break, fatal error | ||
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On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Pierre Joye wrote:
> On 9/12/05, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote:
>
> > I don't think you're going to get a very good answer here. It boils down
> > to what you already know - it's a bug which results in corruption, and
> > that's the only way to fix it. The common decision was that it's more
> > important to fix this bug than to maintain compatibility, and this even
> > resulted in a new PHP 'family' (4.4). It's one of those cases where
> > there's no good solution, only a choice of bad solutions.
>
> 4.4.0, correct and I do accept that. but not in 5.0.5. Derick applied
> the patch to 5.1 not to 5.0.5. We did agree to apply it there and not
> in bug fix releases (and not in security release). Or can you point me
> to the common decision? ;)
I didn't even apply it to 5.1, otherwise it would have been a notice
there too.
Derick
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