On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Kalle Sommer Nielsen <ka...@php.net>wrote:
> 2010/11/18 Ferenc Kovacs <i...@tyrael.hu>: > > by your logic, the same goes for register_globals and for the other > > deprecated stuff, that we wanted to remove with the next major version. > > maybe we should look this the other way around: if we agree that this > things > > have to go, and the only thing which blocks that is the version number, > then > > maybe we should ship something > 5 > > (see my previous mail) > > All of these so called legacy features (in my perspective) except > magic_quotes were removed: > http://php.net/php6news > > yeah, from the trunk, I know, I've just wanted to say, that we should either drop the legacy stuff with the next version, or keep it, but I think thats a bad idea, that we drop some of them. if the only thing thats blocking the cleanup is the version number for the next major release, then we should change that. http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=123522403030163&w=2 >> Exactly. To summarize: > >> x.y.z to x.y.z+1: ABI and API must be 100% compatible >> x.y.z to x.y+1.z: ABI can be broken (need a recompilation), API must >> be 100% compatible >> x.y.z to x+1.y.z: party time ;) with the removal of the legacy features I think we can say, that we break the API. Tyrael
