On 18 July 2011 10:19, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Peter Cowburn <petercowb...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On 18 July 2011 10:05, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Peter Cowburn <petercowb...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> On 17 July 2011 10:08, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@sugarcrm.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Remove magic quotes >>>>> -------------------- >>>>> Votes: 54 total, 21 PHP Core, 33 community >>>>> For removal: PHP group support: 18 (85%), community: 32 (96%) >>>>> >>>>> Again, 3 people voted against: derick,salathe,zeev. Any comments? >>>>> >>>> Like everyone else, I want to see MQ gone for good. The reason for the >>>> no vote was simply that the meaning of "remove magic quotes" was not >>>> made clear. No RFC was linked on the main page, simply "Drop magic >>>> quotes". Would the process be following Philip's RFC from 2008 [1] >>>> based on the internals discussion "adieu a la magie" [2], or a total >>>> removal of anything and everything about magic quotes as originally >>>> posed in that internals thread, or something else entirely? >>> >>> The idea is obviously to remove it as we planed already to do it in >>> the old trunk. Keeping BC for clean code, those relying on the mq >>> functions to check if mq is on or off (returning always off). >> >> Yes, that was obviously the idea, not to remove or drop magic quotes >> at all but instead set, and enforce, the value to be off. Thanks for >> clarifying that entirely too late. > > Too late? If you did not follow any of the internals in the last 7 > years, then yes, we clarified that late...
My meaning was simply that trying to explain what was being voted on, after the vote has closed, is too late. I'm aware of the previous discussions on the topic on this list. > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
