2010/4/16 Johannes Schlüter <johan...@php.net> > On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 11:43 +0300, Arvids Godjuks wrote: > > You must have been flying somethere in the Andromeda galaxy all this > time! > > > > magic_quotes, safe_mode and other stuff was announced depricated now for > a > > few years, there is big buzz going on about it and these features are > > allready marked as depricated and throw warnings as of 5.3, some even as > off > > 5.2. It's hard to miss articles, announce, conferences and numerous blog > > entries literally from any PHP developer who has a blog that these > features > > are to be droped. > > Go to a random hosting site and look at there configuration - magic > quotes will be enabled. Look at some (not all) distributor packages - > magic quotes will be on. Many of them won't see it as it's "hidden" in > an error log which barely anybody read. Yes you do. You also read this > list. But that's a minority of our users. Most don't follow the > development closely. Most don't read blogs. Most don't know about > php.ini. Most don't know about security. > > The people we interact with are just the tip of the iceberg. Most PHP > users are hidden on the internet. > > I would love to get rid of this "feature" but I fear that many users > won't notice and i don't know how to tell them. > > johannes > > I think that the hosting providers will do notice, and either not migrate, or send a mail to their users, warning to check their settings because if they are depending on the magic quotes, they will be in danger.
So I think we don't have to wait for the shared hosting providers, because they will catch up as slow or fast as we go. Plus we don't know what will be the next version, so go ahead, commit into the trunk, and when the release is coming, it will be decided whether or not include this into it. Tyrael
