Re: PHP-5.5 unpack change broke pecl/pear

From: Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:08:48 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP-5.5 unpack change broke pecl/pear
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Le 24/12/2012 04:16, Igor Wiedler a écrit : > Hi Internals, > > When test driving PHP-5.5 I ran into issues with a change of unpack behaviour. Archive_Tar > which is used by pecl and pear (pecl install) uses unpack with the > "a" format character. On 5.4 it strips trailing NUL bytes, on 5.5 it does not. There is a > new "Z" format character that can be used to get the old behaviour. The point is, this > change broke pecl, and will likely break many other things in existence. > > Anthony has asked me to post to internals, so that you can re-visit the issue and perhaps > consider not breaking BC. > > If you decide that you want to keep the BC break, I will gladly submit a patch for Archive_Tar. See http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=19746 Remi. > > Thanks, > > Igor >

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