Re: What is our definition of a "Backward Compatibility Break"

From: Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:15:44 +0000
Subject: Re: What is our definition of a "Backward Compatibility Break"
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Hi! > This is concerning me a bit. Does this mean that PHP 5.5 will be > branched off PHP 5.4 and we will then backport features from master? > If so, this would seem like a Very Bad Idea to me, from a purely > technical point of view. Unless I'm much mistaken this would have to I think also it's not a good idea, not sure what Pierre meant by that though. So far I don't think we have anything BC-breaking in master, but if we do we may have to split it in bc and non-bc branches. > Before Pierre said that I was under the impression that PHP 5.5 will > be branched off master, which would make a lot more sense to me. Could > someone clarify how it will be done? I was assuming this too. I guess we need some clarification on what Pierre was meaning. -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227

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