Re: [php-maint] Uploading 5.4 RC to unstable (Was: Upcoming transition of php5 to 5.4)

On 02/01/2012 06:11 PM, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking that it could be a good idea (after current version migrates > to testing) to upload 5.4RCx to unstable to begin work on transition as soon > as possible. RC releases should have stable API(?), so application wise > there's no problem. I'll fill a release critical bug in our BTS, so > the 5.4 version > don't migrate to testing and close it with stable 5.4.0 release. > > Ccing PHP internals to let them know and ask if it is a good idea (the 5.4RC > will be probably used by more people when uploaded to Debian unstable, i.e. > it means more testing, but also more bugreports). > > O. I support this. Removal of some legacy features, like these functions: session_is_registered(), session_register() and session_unregister(), or removal of .ini stuff like register_globals and register_long_arrays WILL break applications. The sooner we have PHP 5.4 in SID, the sooner people will realize issues, and start fixing. Anyways, I think we should write few words in -devel@, including mentioning the above feature removal (or maybe simply showing the URL: http://www.php.net/releases/NEWS_5_4_0_alpha1.txt, but I don't think that's enough, insisting on session_register() removal for example, which must be still widely used, is crucial). Also, I'd like to know. In PHP 5.3, we had few deprecated functions (ereg / eregi pops to mind, but also return new as reference). Are these now totally removed from PHP 5.4, or do they still show with deprecation warnings? Thoughts? Thomas