Re: Re: cvs: php-src / CODING_STANDARDS

From: Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:30:08 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: cvs: php-src / CODING_STANDARDS
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Pierre-Alain Joye wrote:
This BC thingies in PHP5 sound always weird or silly to me (in most cases). Why in the world do we need a major release if on each case we have to take care of php4?
One of the reasons that you don't see PHP 3 in use anymore is that the transition was so easy. Now that we have even more installations out there and a lot of open projects that run on PHP 4 it is even more important to be as BC as possible. We can break BC for a reason, but if we change existing APIs (like OCI or GD) just for CS conformance we are pushing users with existing code bases to stick with PHP 4 forever ... -- Hartmut Holzgraefe <hartmut@php.net>

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