Re: Vote results

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 July 2011 10:05, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 17 July 2011 10:08, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Remove magic quotes >>>> -------------------- >>>> Votes: 54 total, 21 PHP Core, 33 community >>>> For removal: PHP group support: 18 (85%), community: 32 (96%) >>>> >>>> Again, 3 people voted against: derick,salathe,zeev. Any comments? >>>> >>> Like everyone else, I want to see MQ gone for good. The reason for the >>> no vote was simply that the meaning of "remove magic quotes" was not >>> made clear. No RFC was linked on the main page, simply "Drop magic >>> quotes". Would the process be following Philip's RFC from 2008 [1] >>> based on the internals discussion "adieu a la magie" [2], or a total >>> removal of anything and everything about magic quotes as originally >>> posed in that internals thread, or something else entirely? >> >> The idea is obviously to remove it as we planed already to do it in >> the old trunk. Keeping BC for clean code, those relying on the mq >> functions to check if mq is on or off (returning always off). > > Yes, that was obviously the idea, not to remove or drop magic quotes > at all but instead set, and enforce, the value to be off. Thanks for > clarifying that entirely too late. Too late? If you did not follow any of the internals in the last 7 years, then yes, we clarified that late... Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org