On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Levi Morrison <le...@php.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 22.08.2016 at 18:00, Julien Pauli wrote:
>>>
>>> > I agree this is a BC break and should not stay as-is in source code.
>>>
>>> I wonder why we have more than 100 lines of "Backward incompatible
>>> changes" in the PHP 7.1.0beta3 changelog[1], if BC breaks shouldn't be
>>> introduced in a minor release.
>>>
>>
>> That's a bit loaded question, and leads to a broken windows situation, but
>> from my understanding some people read
>> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/releaseprocess differently: consider some BC
>> breaks simply bug fixes, or think that we shouldn't stick to absolutes but
>> consider BC breaks on a case-by-case basis.
>> personally I think tha
>>
>>
>>>
>>> > It makes some testsuites fail, that did not fail before ; thus it breaks
>>> things.
>>>
>>> An estimated 10% (at least) of my *bugfixes* in GD broke at least one
>>> PHPT, because the test was broken in the first place.
>>>
>>
>> test failures can be false positive or depending explicitly undefined
>> behaviors, but they can be a good indicator when looking for BC breaks.
>> as we can see from the previous mails in this thread there are behavior
>> changes where the previous behavior was different from what was documented
>> so a bit of a grey area.
>>
>> personally I think that we are in general too lenient with allowing BC
>> breaks in 7.1 (even though that I somehow expected this and was arguing for
>> a longer release cycle for 7.0 or at least having a clear roadmap for the
>> next major version) and we should be more strict about it otherwise we will
>> lose the trust we gained from the userland in the last couple of years with
>> our release process and versioning.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ferenc Kovács
>> @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
>
> I agree. However in this particular instance emitting an E_DEPRECATED
> like I proposed should be helpful. These people who are passing
> strings are not getting any behavior out of it - its' completely
> ignored. Additionally since its an E_DEPRECATED it's highly unlikely
> to actually break something. What do you think?

I'm OK to generate a E_DEPRECATED and continue ignoring the first parameter.

And then talk about ways to call parents in child context as ideas,
debates, RFCs and patches.
I myself can work on patches, but as usual, not on ideas as I can't
get the point for such use cases.


Julien

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