Re: Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out there)

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:49:24 +0100 (CET) derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Marcus Boerger wrote: > > > Hello Helgi, > > > > obviously one problem is that PEAR does ignore coding standards. > > Classes should be prefixed in both pear and core. And neither Date > > nor File is in any way prefixed. In th end all we see here is that > > we want namespaces asap. > > > > One thing to discuss now is whether we want to put out 5.1.1 or even > > 5.1.0pl1 asap with Date in ext/Date renamed to something diferent. > > No, as this breaks backwards compability. I have code written for > this and that is going to be released. If the class constants are > removed, you will break code that is out there. There were similar > reasons why Wez didn't want to change the odd PDO method because > people were running it production while PDO was not even beta - which > is fine. But you can definitely not change code in a released version. I think you are either kidding or living in a dream. You keep doing what you want, do not inform us about what you do (and do not say anything in commit messages). This release is a mistake and again you are responsible for that. Assume your wrong decisions once. --Pierre