On 11/15/10 10:12 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > >> Well, it changes the signature of that function, so while we don't break >> backward binary compatibility, we break forward compatibility within the >> 5.3 branch. As in, if I change my extension to use this new NoNull >> string flag, it will no longer work on<5.3.3 whereas if I do the >> if(strlen(filename) != filename_len) check, this will still work in all >> 5.3 releases. > > So if you have such extension, and you need to have it compatible with > previous versions (e.g. PECL one), use the check. That doesn't prevent > us from having the flag in the core code and thus keeping it cleaner.
It still worries me a bit. Distros love to separate core extensions into separate packages and if you update one of those without updating the core package, it will break. Hopefully they have hard dependencies so you can't install php-curl-5.3.4 on php-5.3.3, for example. -Rasmus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
