Re: db, pear-gerneral

On 30 Apr 2004 at 13:35, Gerd Terlutter wrote: > today i looked for some docs online, db->quote vs. db->quoteSmart. i was > not amused about the infos: > Deprecated in release 1.6.0 > Function available since: Release 1.6.0 > what about coding-standards? that is not a fine feature, i've installed > db 1.5.0RC1 (stable). there should be a quote in db 1.6 also, because > this is not a new major-release? for discussion i will refer to the > german php-magazin 3.04, article 'neue birnen braucht das land'. so this > posting will be a flame against the rules of the pear-group. i will also > refer to a document from 14. november 2003, 'new guidelines for BC > breaking releases': > http://pear.php.net/group/docs/20031114-bbr.php > i think this is for backward-compatibility, but can't find bc in > pear::db. this will be a black day in my calendar. Hi Gerd, I don't know the details about this function and about the DB- decisions. But adding a new function is not a BC-break, neither is calling it "deprecated". All scripts still run as they did before, don't they? So it's backward compatible. And deprecated functions in a stable release can only be removed at the next major version - that's right. If I got you wrong, could you please clarify a bit further? Kind regards, Stefan