Re: Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out there)
| From: | Sebastian Kugler | Date: | Fri, 25 Nov 2005 11:35:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break tousands of apps out there) | ||
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> > So why
> > don't you just patch your own PHP for that purpose? Because you're a
> > core developer?
>
> No, because that was a bug fix which people still don't get.
At least I got it and we swallowed that bitter pill in 4.4.0 that lots
of our OO PHP client projects broke unadvertedly with the bugfix
release.
But as you imply, the date issue is _not_ a bugfix so there is even
less an acceptable reason to introduce it in RC 6!
If it was oversighted before RC 1, a professional process should
prevent it from being incorporated in 5.1 at all. What sense does it
make to test an RC 1 if you can't be sure that PHP won't introduce the
major BC breaks before RC 5? ;-)