Well, we actually could just bump the version number to 4.1.0 for these
changes alone. I don't think we should wait for *any* of the other changes
that people had in mind for a major or semi major version, but bumping the
number to 4.1.0 instead of staying at 4.0.8 is probably a good idea.
Zeev
At 23:56 26/07/2001, Cynic wrote:
>At 08:32 7/27/2001, Zeev Suraski wrote the following:
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>
>Zeev,
>
>while I'll applaud to the changes you propose, I suggest this
>happens in 4.1. I know, this is really a cosmetic change only,
>and doesn't justify the bump from the perspective of the PHP
>developers, but is a major one from the perspective of a PHP
>user.
>
>Defaulting error_reporting to E_ALL, and turning register_globals
>off means 99% percent of current applications won't work, and
>given the current behavior of zend_error(), where PHP basically
>reports bogus line numbers (http://www.php.net/bugs.php?id=1225)
>this is really hard to get around. With 4.1, it'll be clear that
>a massive change is coming. I'd vote for 4.7 (current state of
>things) -> 4.1 (register_globals off, error_reporting E_ALL).
>
>Other than that, hip hip hurray!!!
>
> >The way I think we should go about this is:
> >
> >(a) Improve the accessibility of the track vars array by shortening
> their names to $_GET[], $_POST[], etc. and possibly making them
> implicitly available inside functions. This can be done relatively quickly.
> >(b) Get the word out that as of PHP 4.0.8, register_globals will be off,
> so that app authors will have a chance to fix their apps.
> >(c) Release 4.0.7 with the new improved track vars, but with
> register_globals still set to on
> >(d) Release 4.0.8 with register_globals set to off
> >
> >We can (and probably should) make the E_NOTICE change at the same time.
> >
> >Zeev
> >
> >
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