On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 22:47 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote: > On Fri, June 29, 2007 3:25 am, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote: > > The thing which I don't understand is: why do people want backward > > compatibility that much? > > Because if you run a webhost with a zillion users, half of whom are > screaming for PHP 6, and half of whom are screaming because something > broke, you're a very unhappy company.
It is as easy to install two different PHP versions as one with unicode.semantics On and one with unicode.semantics Off since it's PHP_INI_SYSTEM. But depending on that setting you get incompatible, different products with the same name which will just produce way more problems to hosters and developers of software for "PHP 6". johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
