Re: Throwing an E_DEPRECATED for short_open_tag

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > I think you are again becoming a victim of too much generalization. > Like using the slower re-entrant mysql client library, for example, just > in case you have a threaded SAPI that needs it. 99% of people are going > to be using the prefork Apache SAPI or fastcgi, neither of which needs > this, and thus you are penalizing the majority in order to support edge > cases more easily. The switch to libmysqlclient_r was because the mysql driver of apr-util was going to be enabled and would cause a symbols conflict. MySQL 5.1 did not change the symbols and as such we still can't link to the non-reentrant library. > > Same goes for per-package configuration. The common case, Apache and > fastcgi, can do per-directory configuration, but you are choosing not to > use it in order to support edge cases. Instead of trying to change PHP > here, I'd be going after your problematic edge cases and bringing them > up to speed so they can support per-app configuration. > That would be the ideal situation. Sadly it is not that easy to accomplish, hence the need to support more configuration options. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net