Hi again,
Disclaimer: although discussions about this topic tend to be heated (and
hated) this is not the usual short_open_tag thread. Please refrain from
talking about other previous proposals and whether short_open_tag should be
dropped or not.
As mentioned on my other post, at Debian we are planning to include 5.3 in
Squeeze. Given that the development and production php.ini files both turn
short_open_tag by default but many applications shipped by Debian itself
still require it to be enabled, we have decided to _enable_ it again on the
.ini files.
However, we would like to contribute in the quest to make applications stop
using short_open_tag. To do so, we have decided to throw an E_DEPRECATED
warning when an application makes use of short_open_tag. The current
implementation can be found at [1].
How does this sound?
[1] http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-
php/php.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/deprecate_short_open_tag;h=57a79c6215afdc8654c6d18e791a9b7c8f5e373b
Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net