Re: [PHP-DEV] A proposal regarding function naming, aliasesand such From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 10/20/00

At 12:24 PM 10/20/00 +0200, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
>Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > Most people don't upgrade from 4.0.0 to 4.0.27 but at least every two or
> > three versions or so (IMO).
>thats why i won't push any limits on how long a 'deprecate' function may
>stay alive (and produce the appropriate warning), only the final 'dead'
>state (if implemented at all) shouldn't stay to long, it should only be
>some sort of convenience level before totally dropping out a function
>
>but still the 'experimental' state would make sense as it would prevent
>a lot of backward compatibility problems in the first place as we do
>not have to care about compatibility too much as long as a function
>hadn't
>left the experimental state before
>
> > I think (as I've mentioned in the past) the downloads page should list the
> > NEWS file to make sure that people keep updated with the changes. We are
> > one of the only projects that keeps a nice and useful news file as opposed
> > to just and ugly unreadable Changelog file.
>theese mechanisms are not meant to replace the NEWS and Changelog files,
>but they might help those users, who overlooked something in the NEWS
>file, stumble across a change not documented there or do regular updates
>whithout reading NEWS or Changelog
>
>this isn't going to help everybody out there, but it doesn't harm anyone
>and might help some
>and if done right i might even be able to extract the experimental and
>deprecate states and comments for automagical inclusion into the manual
>as i have done with the version availability information from the
>function table

I think you misunderstood my Email :)
I agree with you and I think in general it's a nice idea.

Andi 

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