On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 7:29 PM, David Soria Parra <dso...@gmx.net> wrote: > On 03/26/2013 11:44 PM, Anatol Belski wrote: >> What +/- I personally see upgrading this at this time: >> >> contra: >> - there might be bugs, the next release might have not all them fixed >> - 5.11 is what the latest linux exts have even as dev >> - older/custom magic files might be incompatible >> >> pro: >> - latest libmagic data >> - better safety for the future >> - in a year all that libs are for sure upgraded in the main distros >> - further upgrades can be better handled > > HI Anatol, > > thanks for putting this patch together. However as we already reached > feature freeze and we are will have beta2 tomorrow I think it's a bit > too late for so much new code. I cannot really judge the sideeffects of > this upgrade and would prefer to be strict about the feature freeze. So > please do not update the library unless Stas decides that he wants to do > it in 5.4, in that case I have to go with his decision.
We have done that many times in the past for 5.3 and 5.4. It is relatively risk free. Even more for 5.5 during beta phase. It does not add new features but fixes bugs. The good side effect is that we can test it well with 5.5 and back port to 5.3/4 later. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
