Re: Re: cvs: php-src / CODING_STANDARDS
| From: | Pierre-Alain Joye | Date: | Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:33:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: cvs: php-src / CODING_STANDARDS | ||
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On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:30:08 +0100
Hartmut Holzgraefe <hartmut@php.net> wrote:
> 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 ...
Agreed. However a major release is the right time to drop/clean
incosistencies. That said I'm not sure there are many (or even only one
;) ) existing modules in php4 that use foo_bar method names.
Then it's not only for CS. If we adopt this standart, we ease the work
for many wrappers or porting codes to php as well.
On the other side, always keeping in mind the old things make the users
lazy too, but this is another topic ;).
pierre