Sanford Whiteman wrote:
Lester, are you seriously suggesting we coddle providers who either
[a] Willfully misrepresent the PHP versioning system, showing they are
utterly tuned out of the PHP support community?
Well they are only one of the ISP's who have been posting PHP6 as their next
supported version, and been waiting for it to appear. These are the people who
have to support naive users who are NOT in a position to re-write code just to
make it work with later versions of PHP5, and needing to still run PHP5.2 in
parallel with PHP5.4 is not the easiest thing to do on shared hosting?
But I was posting it so that people will not be surprised when 'php6' starts
appearing in bug reports where users have changed and now need help to fix the
problems. I stopped using 1&1's versions of PHP a number of years ago, switching
to my own machines with them simply so I could control versions but I can quite
understand why they have not switched away from PHP5.2 and they are now
providing PHP5.4 as a selectable option, but which HAS to co-exist with their
existing working infrastructure! How else could this situation be handled?
I'm lead to believe that the date was chosen simply because they do consider the
situation a bit of a joke ...
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