Re: BC break in 5.4.29 and 5.5.13
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:27:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: BC break in 5.4.29 and 5.5.13 | ||
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> And where is the limit?
>
> We define the limit.
>
>> Add a full extension is fine too? No, it is not.
>
> Depends on the extension. Adding new extension to core may be not
> warranted, because you can just as well put it on PECL. So it's not a
> good example - you can't just put a new function or parameter on PECL.
>
>> It reintroduces the pain to add dozen minors version checks for php
>> version dependencies.
>
> You don't need version checks. You need functionality checks. You'd need
> them anyway if you want to support multiple versions.
you need both, and it is painful.
--
Pierre
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