Hello, Zeev Suraski wrote: > >I am trying to bring the attention to the fact that as in the past, many > >ISPs did not upgrade from old PHP versions because they have bad > >experiences of having their clients code broken in new PHP versions. In > >this case, an old PHP version is 4.0.0 which is the previous major version. > > I think we're all well aware of this fact. I definitely am. I can also > understand their reasons - updating to the last version is not suitable for > everyone.
So, there why keep giving more reasons to not upgrade? > >If you decide to not be sensitive to this point , I am afraid you will be > >leaving a lot of people annoyed and loosing business. > > Being aware or even sensitive to this point has very little to do with the > specific issue at hand (dirname()). We do try to minimize > incompatibilities in released, documented code, but sometimes they do > occur. You'd find that's the case with virtually any large scale piece of > software, including commercial software. Admit it, you were not aware and not even documented the change that Andi made to the behaviour of a function that worked like that for 3 years. > >As to the eventual accusation of being unprofessional, I mean that I am > >afraid that it will be what other people will think about who made these > >backward incompatible changes. > > I know, I'm just pointing out that I'm hearing that mostly from you and > nobody else :) > > I can assure you that I'm not in 'ignore mlemos' mode, and you would have > gotten a very similar answer (well, except for the 'Manuel,' in the > beginning) if you were somebody else. You're more than welcome to send us > what you think is constructive criticism. Sure but they way it seems to me is that reporting the problem did not make any difference. So why bother reporting? I am afraid that a lot of people simply do not bother to report problems, even when it affects their businesses, because they just get this kind of response and they certainly can use the time they spend making a useful report in things that can really result in something that the need. Regards, Manuel Lemos -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
