On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 10:05 +0000, James Butler wrote: > Are the £1 hosting companies going to be using 5.4+ any time soon? I'm > still coming across hosts who still transition 4.X -> 5.1/2. > I think these slow moving hosts are going to form a natural time delay > between any changes now and these changes taking affect on the parts > of the user community who this will catch out, which (hopefully)
The key is: At some moment in time they will switch. And if the application continues to run as before nobody will notice the break. > should allow ample time for education and 'getting the word out'. If you could reach all users (especially the ones not knowing about m_q at all) ... > And also, how far and long do you go to protect people from what is > now an ugly/wrong/nasty feature of the language? Unless the proposal > to get rid of MQ's is dropped (shudder), Its going to have go at some > point and it would seem daft to try and wait until every app written > that requires it to die out. And the longer the feature is on/usable, > the more new code written that might really on it. Yes. We have to get rid of them! I was +1 for the old PHP 6 as that breaks so much stuff that it is nowhere a drop in replacement. And as such I'm happy to drop it in any release breaking lots of applications. I'm not happy about dropping it in a version which is a drop-in replacement in most cases. (count the BC breaks in trunk right now ..) One way might be dropping the old mysql extension. Then "everybody" has to learn something else and while learning about that /might/ be reached with further education. johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
