On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Mike Robinson wrote: > Wez Furlong writes: > > On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Mike Robinson wrote: > > > Sorry. There's just no way this should happen. > > > But it has happened, and it's going stay this way. > > > > Now, if you don't have anything positive to contribute, > > please stop stirring up threads like this (again) without > > first understanding the issues behind them. It just wastes > > time, which is better spent developing, bug fixing, > > documenting - doing just about anything else is more productive. > > You are correct in your assumption that I have difficulty > understanding the issues behind this change. After asking several > times for an explanation, and after having gone over the archives > to find some related discussion (and asking for pointers to that > as well), I came to conclusion that this change is totally wrong. > This change has nothing to do with fixing anything. It's breaking > BC in a huge way, at the historical level, for the sake of a minor > convenience for a very small group of users. > > Throwing lame excuses at it, like "it's evolution", doesn't cut > it with me. I'm still at the same place. This is just wrong. It > has nothing to do with stirring anything up. >
For whatever it's worth, I totally agree with you on this one, Mike. I just hope more people would come out and be vocal about this issue. Dear god, just imagine the amount of reports about their installations not working after upgrading to 4.3... Joao -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
