Re: "php_serialize" session serialize handler

From: Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 02:11:33 +0000
Subject: Re: "php_serialize" session serialize handler
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Hi Stas,

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]>wrote:

> > Removing unneeded limitations, rather than forcing them to users, is user
> > friendly and the way to go. IMHO.
>
> If we wrote it from scratch, sure. But if we already have existing and
> working one, having people to deal with migrating data and
> incompatibilities that arise IMHO is not worth the additional benefit of
> having session variable named "!", without which one can live quite well.
> So I'm not against having option for new serializer that does it if
> somebody needs it, but I think changing the default for this and the
> disruption potentially caused by it is not a very good idea.


I agree. Breaking existing apps w/o good reason must be avoided. Therefore,
I proposed that introduce new serializer for 5.5 as optional. Do you
agree to have new serializer for 5.6 as optional and make it default
for future releases?

Regards,

--
Yasuo Ohgaki
[email protected]


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