Re: Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break thousands of appsout there)
| From: | Pierre | Date: | Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:30:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: PHP 5.1 (Or How to break thousands of appsout there) | ||
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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:49:04 -0000
nlopess@php.net ("Nuno Lopes") wrote:
> >I must say that I feel deceived by this.
> > Derick and I agreed that this won't be enabled for 5.1, and he then
> > took advantage of the fact that release managers changed to enable
> > his class. Doesn't leave a good taste in my mouth and it shouldn't
> > happen again in future.
> >
> > Andi
>
> Just to clarify, it was Ilia who enabled the class, but just to move
> the constants there. All methods are still disabled.
He did it on Derick's demand. Ilia's mistake was to trust him. As Andi
did too.
> >>As I stated before, core PHP does reserve the right to pick up the
> >>most obvious keywords as we come up with new functionality, and I
> >>think we should have a date class, but we should do it in an
> >>orderly manner and give people some time to migrate to something
> >>that actually makes sense.
> >>
> >>-Rasmus
>
> Right! And changing a class name from a PHP program takes just a few
> seconds..
Wrong, you have to first test, change and retest. Some cannot be
changed for obvious reasons, like pear::date, if you do not understand
that, feel free to ask me why on irc, prv.
--Pierre