Re: towards the next 5.3 release

On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 13:12 +0100, David Zülke wrote: > Am 03.02.2009 um 14:41 schrieb Lukas Kahwe Smith: > > > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47206 - XSLT > > I looked through the CVS logs, could you confirm I understand it right: > > The type hint was added in 5.2.6, and will be gone again in 5.2.9, so > the only PHP releases with DOMDocument type hints there are 5.2.6, > 5.2.7 and 5.2.8? I think independently from what we do in 5.3 we will have incompatibilities between versions here which can't be worked-around in userland (I don't consider if (version_compare(...)) { class ... } else { class ... } a proper workaround) So here are three choices: - The DOMDoument typehint is certainly wrong. - Adding an interface is lots of additional trouble (user code will break again, no proper way for users to be 5.2 and 5.3 compatible) - No typehint, as it is now, #47206 "Expected / to be documented", incompatible with 5.2.6-5.2.8 but compatible with most other 5.2 versions After reading this thread and some limited private discussion I think the last option is the best. johannes