Re: [VOTE] Deprecate and remove calls from incompatible context

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: > hi Zeev, > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > > > Can you explain why you think it's a major BC break? The RFC suggested > that > > the BC break would be minimal and that the likelihood a lot of people > used > > it is very low. If you think differently and share it it might put it > in a > > different light. > > Problem is that we do not allow BC break in 5.5, at all, minor or not. > Minor vs major BC is all relative, a minor BC for someone can create > large issues for someone else, that's why we do not allow BC, in > general. Killing some outdated "security" features however may fit > better, but I am really not sure this one is worse the risk. > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > did you read the RFC? we would only deprecate this feature in 5.5. and we already have such changes in 5.5 like https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_preg_replace_eval_modifier -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu