Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Lukas Kahwe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the drop was planned for 6.0 for a reason. > i also do not think we need to make a 5.3 release just for this. > lets focus on getting feedback on namespaces and the other changes and have > this fixed on beta1 early 2009. > > adding an E_DEPRECATE (actually i guess we should check the PHP6 NEWS file > for other stuff as well), does make sense. > disabling by default (if not yet done) too. agreed. for php6, disable by default, add in a warning (that is higher than E_NOTICE? so people see it) for php5, keep business as usual. i don't think many people would think that 5.2 -> 5.3 would disable/remove such a major thing. if anything, add in an E_NOTICE perhaps saying "magic quotes is active/enabled, PHP 6 will be disabling this, now is time to start fixing the code" while i would love to see it go, i think that is too drastic for a "minor" version. PHP 6 will be totally different already so backwards compatibility isn't as important. changes will most likely be required at that point. - $0.02 -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
