On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 23:35 -0500, Matthew Nuzum wrote: > There are backwards compat issues. For one, php 4.2 started shipping > with register globals off which is likely to break compatibility in a > major way. It should be easy though to create an RPM that ships with > register globals on. register_globals was defaulted to off for a reason (see: http://us2.php.net/register_globals). Besides, those willing to enable it can do so simply in php.ini. > However, there have been many other changes since then. In evaluating my > response to this problem I spent a bit of time yesterday going through > the change logs on the php.net website. The relevant changes were 27 > pages long as printed on US Letter sized paper. 27 pages is a lot. Granted I am not for adding new-func via FL, however clearly those 27 pages represent a LOT of security/bug fixes. -Jim P. -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
