Re: PHP 5.5 Upgrade Notes Question

hi, On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> wrote: > Some questions: > > - Dropped support for Windows XP & 2003: > > o Was this an RFC? At what point was it decided? (I may have missed it in > that case I’d just appreciate a pointer to where it was decided). I am > asking because XP still seems to be quite prevalent and while Microsoft > wants to incentivize people to upgrade by being aggressive around end of > life, not sure that’s the most convenient for our users. It was announced with 5.4.0, 5.4.0 was the last release to support Windows XP/2003. Which were already not supported anymore back then. > - In “Backwards Incompatible Changes” there’s a big list of BC > changes that are internals and don’t impact user land. So could come across > a lot more intimidating than it is. I think we should move towards the end > of the upgrade notes in a section of its own that’s “PHP Internals Changes > – does not impact user space” (or something of that sort). I’m happy to > make that change but wanted to bring it up before tackling it. Sounds good, also if they are internals changes, they should be part of UPGRADING.INTERNALS, which cruelly needs love: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/UPGRADING.INTERNALS > - On similar note as previous item, should we put New Features > before BC changes? No big deal but it’s always nice to have the more > positive piece first :) Sounds good too, however I have to check which BC changes are in there, as we are not supposed to allow any :) (except bugs fixes for bad/undocumented/random behavior as usual). Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye