Hello, On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Mark Krenz <m...@suso.org> wrote: > Whenever I bring up an issue like this with the PHP devs, I feel like > you guys never experience having to support PHP. Among other things, I > am the main sysadmin for my web hosting company and have been supporting > PHP since version 3 there. When 4.0 came out, I had to help people > change their code accordingly to fix any changes and so on with > subsequent versions. > .. snip ... > So for the project developers to just say screw you, we're dropping > ereg in 6 and you can't do anything about it without giving a chance for > that information to make its way downstream is pretty cold and will lead > to a lot of angry people that maybe you don't have to deal with, but the > rest of us that run servers and maintain code have to deal with.
Just because you did not find the information does not mean it was unavailable. Assuming developers are saying "screw you" is just ignorant. No one says you have to upgrade to PHP6 the moment it is available. you could run PHP5 another 10 years if you choose. If you choose to go through whatever measures you find necessary then no one is at fault except for you. Many web hosting companies waited until after PHP4 was entirely deprecated to upgrade to PHP5, and some, likely still run PHP4 on some servers for customers to stubborn to upgrade. Your assumption of responsibility I find incorrect, your general approach to this discussion I find distasteful. If it bothers you this much put a patch out, that can be discussed and perhaps applied depending on the consensus. -Chris -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
