On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 1:29 PM G. P. B. <george.bany...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Internal, > > The two weeks of voting have now ended. > The results are 38 for and 18 against (total 56) for the primary vote to > deprecate PHP's short open tag in PHP 7.4. > This passes in favor with 68%. > > The results are 42 for and 15 against (total 57) for the secondary vote to > remove PHP's short open tag in PHP 8. > This passes in favor with 74%. > > Thanks for everyone who voted on this issue. > > Best regards > > George P. Banyard > The RFC doesn't mention to much details on the exact implementation of this removal, but to avoid the potential security nightmare of <? code to suddenly be printed to screens when people upgrade to 8.0 I would suggest (props to Bob who mentioned this idea) that we at least keep the INI option indefinitely and when set to On always cause a fatal error in RINIT with an error message that mentions the security implications of disabling it and potentially linking to a PHP documentation page that offers solutions on how to migrate. This page could also be linked in the deprecation error message in 7.4 > > > >
