On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 05:12:47PM GMT, Pierre Joye [pierre....@gmail.com] said the following: > > Let me use another example to make you understand the situation. > > I bought a car, which is great, I can repair it myself, can drive
Car analogies are seldomly an accurate portrayal to the situation. This case is no different. > Please note that I knew for years that I won't find gaz anymore at some point. > > Shorter version: Topics have been discussed to death, move on, nothing to see. Whenever I bring up an issue like this with the PHP devs, I feel like you guys never experience having to support PHP. Among other things, I am the main sysadmin for my web hosting company and have been supporting PHP since version 3 there. When 4.0 came out, I had to help people change their code accordingly to fix any changes and so on with subsequent versions. But I know that a lot of the people who write code in PHP aren't on this mailing list and don't even look at the PHP manual. A lot of causual developers simply copy code from other places. You might say that its their fault for not keeping up with what they are using and properly learning how to use it. I'd probably agree with you. But at the same time, PHP's ease of use has caused this. Its easy for anyone to sit down with no programming experience and figure out how to process a form, often times by downloading someone else's code and modifying it a bit. Then they learn more off of that and before you know it they are writing stock market simulations. I know a few people like this. I'm guilty of this a bit too (although I've read through most of the PHP documentation and a few books too). I wonder how many of the major apps that people use regularly use ereg and their developer don't know about this change. So for the project developers to just say screw you, we're dropping ereg in 6 and you can't do anything about it without giving a chance for that information to make its way downstream is pretty cold and will lead to a lot of angry people that maybe you don't have to deal with, but the rest of us that run servers and maintain code have to deal with. Its easy for you guys on the list to say that you've known about this or that, because you spend most of your time on PHP and are somewhat in your own world. I spend a fair amount of time on PHP and I still didn't know about this change until recently. -- Mark S. Krenz IT Director Suso Technology Services, Inc. http://suso.org/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
