Hello Mike, that is a good idea imo. Putting all the stuff in an extension that is per default enabled in 6.0 and then in 6.1 moved to pecl. If everything generates E_STRICT/E_NOTICE then we should be fine.
best regards marcus Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 5:51:42 PM, you wrote: > Just a silly little brainstorm.... > What about moving those functions to a separate php extension where they > can eventually be phased out? At least at that point you can get it all > out of the core but still provide an easy way for people who need the BC > to have it. (is there already a deprec extension somewhere?) > On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 16:08 +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote: >> At 12:27 07/03/2006, Pierre wrote: >> >On 3/7/06, Derick Rethans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Stefan Esser wrote: >> > > >> > > > >> > > > > That was the plan. Checking for register_globals should return >> > > > > false. >> > > > >> > > > Pierre's list says it removes things like >> > > > get_magic_quotes_gpc() ..., which is a NONO. >> > > >> > > yeah, agreed. And we should also throw errors when people make the >> > > setting, as per >> > > http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#register-globals >> > >> >What is the point of detecting something that does not exist anymore? >> >> The point is that breakage is aggregated, not binary. The more stuff >> we break, the more difficult it is to port, and frankly, it's quite >> likely that a non OO app could migrate fairly cleanly even to PHP 6 >> with unicode disabled (perhaps with minor >> fixes). get_magic_quotes_gpc() is designed for apps to do something >> differently depending on the value of magic_quotes_gpc. It's fine >> that it's always off in PHP 6, but there's no reason not to keep this >> function (to always return false) so that you don't have to fix God >> knows how many lines of code to remove it. >> >> Zeev >> Best regards, Marcus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
