[wp-hackers] Magic Quoting removal Road Map/Plan

[Jari Pennanen]

Hi!

2011/6/10 Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>:
> Some Plugins in the Repository haven't been updated since 2004. Do you
> really think that the advent of PHP6 is *really* going to motivate the
> developers of such Plugins to update their code?

Of course not, they are most likely abandoned code, just like most
Open Source. But they will stop working in new PHP6 releases, you
can't fix them either with sticking to this mutilating read-only
variables. They break on some other part then.