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> Von: Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk>
> An: "internals@lists.php.net" <internals@lists.php.net>
> CC: 
> Gesendet: 13:42 Dienstag, 5.Februar 2013
> Betreff: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for serious BC compatibility aka language 
> versioning
> 
> hakre wrote:
>>>  In reality we have to make choices where we DO spend time. There is 
> still a mile
>>>  >of code out there being used live which is running perfectly on the 
> PHP5.2
>>>  >infrastructure. That needs testing and reworking on PHP5.3 and then 
> PHP5.4
>>>  >before we get around to 5.5.
>>  Why do you change the infrastructure if the code does not need it? I mean, 
>> provide the infrastructure the code needs and done. There is more than one 
>> vendor that offers support for PHP 5.2 infrastructure in the market. What's 
>> the deal?
> 
> The point here is supporting customers that I've 'acquired' who are 
> currently hosted on services that control that infrastructure. The long term 
> aim 
> is to move them to servers under our control, but in the meantime until 
> contracts run out we have to live with such activity as 'We will be updating 
> to PHP5.3 on the 1st April'. The problem now is how to deal with that 
> situation, and paying up outstanding contracts may be the solution. The code 
> needs updating, and updating to 5.4 would be useful, but short term 
> everything 
> needs testing and fixing for PHP5.3 :(

This might be starting to become slightly off-topic for the list, but what 
prevents you from communicating the problem to your customers and also offering 
them the help they need?

> The whole reason that ISP's are currently moving from PHP5.2 to PHP5.3 
> rather than PHP5.4 is that there is a better chance that their client sites 
> will 
> continue to work.

I can not say that for the ISPs I use and I've been talking to. For the 
handmade ones it's more what their distro offers, for the commercially 
professional ones it's more what their users ask for.

> http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/pl-php/5 use of PHP5.1 is 
> slowing faster than 5.4 use is growing.

I must admit I lack of skill reading statistics, however, I don't understand 
why you talk about PHP 5.1 while your problem is that some contracted services 
of your customers is changing to PHP 5.3 from 5.2.

If you need a helping hand in porting legacy 5.2 code to 5.3, feel free to 
contact me.


-- hakre

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