On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 14:38:03 -0700, Andrei Zmievski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, backporting major features from PHP 6 to 5 will slow down PHP 6
> adoption, and I'd like to avoid it if possible.
>
> There is a way to run two engines side by side, by the way: in
> separate instances of Apache. It's really not that complicated.
Isn't there some evidence of the ability to run two engines side-by-side
with only one instance of Apache; thereby eliminating some overhead?
Wouldn't that actually be easier?
I could have sworn I saw that somewhere.
>
> -Andrei
>
>
> On Jul 6, 2007, at 6:13 AM, Stefan Priebsch wrote:
>
>> IMHO backporting a lot of features to PHP4 is a major reasons for the
>> slow PHP5 adoption. Basically, it seems that everybody who is not
>> using
>> OOP feels that PHP4 is fine for them.
>>
>> I'd say committing to backporting stuff from PHP6 to PHP5 will yield a
>> similar situation: very slow or no PHP6 adoption.
>>
>> BTW, can't the unicode switch be done at compile time? So one can
>> compile PHP6 Unicode and PHP6 non-Unicode. Then if there is a
>> clever way
>> of running both engines in parallel, there should be no performance
>> impact inside the non-unicode engine. Since there is both versions of
>> the engine (that can maybe even selected by a certain statement in the
>> main PHP file of the application), unicode and non-unicode users are
>> happy. And there is only one version of PHP in the market, to
>> conquer it
>> all.
>>
>> There must be a reason to upgrade to a new PHP version (usually
>> features, maybe performance increase etc.). But there also must be no
>> reason not to upgrade. But you all know this, it has been said before.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Stefan
>>
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