Re: RE: [PHP-QA] Supporting Apache 2 with PHP 4.2.0

At 3:08 PM +0200 4/9/2002, Markus Fischer wrote:

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:39:01AM -0400, Robinson, Mike wrote :

Jani Taskinen writes:

    I'd rather have 4.2.0 released without the apache2 support
    and  work on the code to get it work for real and release
    4.2.1 with the fixed support.

IMHO, removing Apache2 support will not affect the number of Apache2-related bugs reported

    How can there be if we remove apache2 completely ? :)

The bugs introduced *BY* ripping out code, for starters. Ripping code out at this stage is just a bad idea, IMNSHO. Sure, you "know" it's not going to affect the build process or anything else, right? Uh-hunh. I've heard *that* one before. CVS users will, of course, still be reporting bugs... I think Mike's thesis is that anybody who wants to try Apache 2 with PHP is going to be able to use snaps or cvs to do it anyway, so the same number of bugs will get reported. While I disagree with that -- There will always be naive users who go with bleeding edge features of otherwise stable software and then be shocked that it doesn't work right... Anyway, I *still* think removing code, no matter how innocuous that change might seem, is a Bad Idea. Document the hell out of it, whatever state it's in, but *DON'T* alter the source from what has been QA-ed. -- Got Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm