[wp-forums] Sending up the bat signal with needs-dev

[Andrew Nacin]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Sergey Biryukov <sergeybiryukov.ru@
gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Andrew Nacin <wp at andrewnacin.com> wrote:
> >  2. If a function like json_encode() or _decode() doesn't exist, then
> they
> > have a really lame host. Depending on how many of these crop up, we're
> going
> > to need to call some hosts (not the first time) and consider a fix in the
> > eventual 3.2.1. Please alert me to ones like this.
>
> There are some people with this problem on local support forums too.
> I've put up a plugin to restore json_encode() and _decode() from 3.1.4
> on those hosts which have them missing even in PHP 5.2.4+. Is it worth
> submitting to WordPress.org directory until 3.2.1 comes out?


Not sure what we plan to do yet. If we were to do a plugin, we'd make it
official from wordpressdotorg. Of course one problem is that they can't
install (or activate) the plugin, so it needs to be a mu-plugin.

What hosts are they on?