[php-maint] Bug#142178: Bug#142178: php4: short_open_tag should default to off

[Ondřej Surý]

Sean,

now it would be a good time to do the archive check and maybe filling
a wishlist bug (or even writing that check yourself) against lintian
to check the short open tags.

I will be disabling short_open_tag in next upload of PHP 5.5

O.

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Ondřej Surý <ondrej at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Sean Dubois <seander13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey Ondřej do you want me to try and take this one?
>
> just leave it post-wheezy.  We cannot make this change now due freeze,
> and we will have plenty of time to solve this in jessie.
>
>> What would be the easiest way to check what PHP programs are employing
>> short tags? I would end up installing each one and using grep (Or
>> something stronger in Python if needed) to scan the installed files
>> and look for short tags. I will just make up a CSV of what programs do
>> or do not use short tags.
>
> Yeah, something like that. I suggest using wiki to track the checks,
> something like: http://wiki.debian.org/PHP/54Transition
>
> There's also a git repository with bunch of tools I have used to track
> PHP 5.4 transition located at
> anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-php/php-maint-tools.git
>
> Do you have alioth account, if so please add yourself to the pkg-php
> group, if not, please create one, and add yourself, so you can have
> write access to git repos.
>
>> I have done a decent amount of PHP programming and I have never seen a
>> program use ASP like tags.
>
> Me neither, but it's the baggage we have to drag for now (in wheezy
> freeze time).
>
> O.
> --
> Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>



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