On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Marcus Börger wrote: > >You are correct in your assumption that I have difficulty > >understanding the issues behind this change. After asking several > >times for an explanation, and after having gone over the archives > >to find some related discussion (and asking for pointers to that > >as well), I came to conclusion that this change is totally wrong. > >This change has nothing to do with fixing anything. It's breaking > >BC in a huge way, at the historical level, for the sake of a minor > >convenience for a very small group of users. > > > >Throwing lame excuses at it, like "it's evolution", doesn't cut > >it with me. I'm still at the same place. This is just wrong. It > >has nothing to do with stirring anything up. > > > >Regards > >Mike Robinson > > What do you want then? For historical reasons you will allow > us only to introduce total new functionality and bug fixes? No > more improvements that will have any influence on some working > systems out there? Then i'll answer stay where you are and do > not do any version upgrade.... > > "evolution" is not an excuse here. We want to use PHP on the > command line and many people will do also. And we make the > command line usage as easy as possible. Even if that requires > some mauals being updated and marking some bug reports as > bogus.
You couldn't write my thoughts down in a better way :) Derick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals http://php-mag.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
