On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:54 PM, sean finney <sean...@seanius.net> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:37:09PM +0100, Pierre Joye wrote: >> While wondering what was the reasoning behind this commit, I came to >> the conclusion that we should not do such thing in stable branches and >> we should respect something we decided long time ago, to stop to add >> bad options which can break PHP ABI or BC in one way or another. It is > > or maybe at least queue it up in a branch for "BC breaking review", or in > a branch where the ABI has already changed? I.e. if at some point you > must break the API/ABI, you can then shuttle in the rest of the changes > that you would have wanted but had deferred for this reason.
Right, and we have a clear way to do it, increase the middle version number (4.3 > 4.4, 5.2 > 5.3, etc.). Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
