Re: BC break in 5.4.29 and 5.5.13

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Rafael Dohms <listas@rafaeldohms.com.br> wrote: > Its a BC break people. > It does not matter if we think A or B are correct, a point release CANNOT > break BC. > > It has been 18 days without a 5.5.14 release or a rollback of 5.5.13. > This is highly unacceptable and irresponsible of a core language. I can only agree with you here. I totally fail to understand why we did not fire a new release right away after we knew a BC break was introduced. We fail here. > I cannot understand why we are discussing this and leaving userland broken, > this affect a lot more the phpunit/doctrine. > Rollback the release, or release a 5.5.14 release that fixes it, THEN you > discuss what the proper thing should be and worry about it in 5.5.15. Not even that. We know it is a BC break. So unless there is a change that does not break BC, we cannot do that in any 5.x, not even 5.6, except if there is a real appealing reason to do so (security, crash bugs, etc). Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org