On Monday 10 September 2007, Lester Caine wrote: > Scott MacVicar wrote: > >> 6) Remove safe_mode, register_globals and magic_quotes > >> > >> 1 0 -1 > > > > +1, The sooner we get rid of this the better, though I could see things > > going wrong if its not properly documented for everyone. I'd perhaps not > > remove the functions such as get_magic_quotes_gpc and the likes and just > > have them acting like they are disabled. This would prevent bc breaks > > for most applications. > > Don't forget that the majority of users have yet to move FROM PHP4. So > making things even more difficult to port over is not a good idea. > I have two legacy sections of code that I STILL have not worked out what is > stopping me switching off register_globals - code that I inherited from > others.
The correct time to break BC is PHP 6. Shared hosts, what most PHP code ends up running on, are very conservative by nature. They won't upgrade to something that has any chance of breaking their customers' code unless they really have to. That means the best way to encourage adoption of new PHP versions is to save up BC breaks and do them all at once, so that there's only one "speed bump" to get over instead of several. Such big-BC-breaks are known in most circles as "major versions". :-) However, those settings seem like a text-book case where E_DEPRECATED would be desirable, as it gives everyone explicit fair warning that those mis-features are going away soon. That should help PHP 6 adoption in the long run rather than hinder it. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
