On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:58:11 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ilia Alshanetsky) wrote:
> Yes, initially there will be some short-term pain in converting > existing apps, but for the long term it'll provide a robust and > portable solution. If we add "legacy" flag or INI setting, I feel > that we'd be taking a step backwards in terms of making applications > portable. The only problem being to "break" things between 5.0 and 5.1. The ext/date should have been a separate extension without touching the existing code based. This way allowed to provide rock solid and portable solutions and keeps BC with all working applications. This was what I said for months without too much success. This was even our plan to add pecl/date as ext/date in 5.1 but Derick thought it is better to go this way, so it goes... --Pierre -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
