Hello Pierre, Monday, December 8, 2008, 4:57:17 PM, you wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Johannes Schlüter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> let's take this to a new thread so it'S not hidden in other discussions: >> >> On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 16:06 +0100, Hannes Magnusson wrote: >>> > I do not think it is necessary for 5.3. It is an alpha release after >>> > all and seriously, anyone who plans to move to 5.3.0 and still >>> > relies on magic quotes gpc is likely to have more issues as well. >>> >>> Time to turn it off by default then? >> >> Getting rid of magic_quotes would be really nice but has a very big >> "BUT". >> >> Many things (I won't call it "applications" or something...) out there >> are accidentially more or less safe due to magic_quotes. Many of these >> things were written by people with, at most, basic understanding of the >> what they are doing and now are running at some random hosting company >> on a $9.99/year (no idea what today's prices are) >> >> When dropping magic_quotes the hosting company can do one of two things: >> >> a) not update to 5.3 so we either have to maintain 5.2 for some time or >> let them have problems > +1 > I already discussed the possibility to maintain the 5.2 branch after > 5.3-final (irc and some meetings) and I like to do it (in any case). I > do think it is something to do but only for critical bug fixes > (security or crash only). The offer sounds very good. And given that offer I'd go so far as to announce 5.3 as a dev/testing branch allowing us to continue adding more features along its lifetime. When we're confident we release 5.4 as the next stable branch. And I would evne go further by generally labelling even minor branches as stable and odd branches as developer/testing. That way we IMO suit orselves and our users much better as we have done so far. For one, it would allow us to reduce the number of changes due to upgrading PHP simply because we would increase the lifetime of a branch and reduce the number of changes going into a stable branch - just saying. Just once again. > We may say that it is the job of the distributors, but I'd to > disagree. It is critical for us to provide sources and binary releases > of a stable branch officially, even after a newer branch has been > released. > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org Best regards, Marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
