Re: [PHP-DEV] script upgrading program was Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Summerof Code

2006-04-26 Thread Richard Lynch
On Tue, April 25, 2006 10:43 pm, Marco wrote: > does > anyone have any suggestions on how we can encourage the deployment of > php > 5? Other routes: Convince the webhosts it's 100% backwards-compatible, and easy to upgrade, and provides better resource management so they can cram in more users

Re: [PHP-DEV] script upgrading program was Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Summerof Code

2006-04-25 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
Marco wrote: The same way anything is encouraged in this programming world. Write killer apps that only work in PHP 5+. This is a thread that will be more at home on php-general@lists.php.net How can you write killer apps in php5 when less than 5% of low costs hosting providers support it? I

Re: [PHP-DEV] script upgrading program was Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Summerof Code

2006-04-25 Thread Marco
> > > The same way anything is encouraged in this programming world. Write > killer apps that only work in PHP 5+. This is a thread that will be > more at home on php-general@lists.php.net How can you write killer apps in php5 when less than 5% of low costs hosting providers support it? Its a

Re: [PHP-DEV] script upgrading program was Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Summerof Code

2006-04-25 Thread Greg Beaver
Marco wrote: >>Is this a crazy idea? Or is it even possible? I guess its not possible to >>garuantee 100% compatability but even 90 - 95% would be a start. >> > > > I guess this is a crazy idea since no-one has commented :-) Oh well... does > anyone have any suggestions on how we can encourage t

Re: [PHP-DEV] script upgrading program was Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Summerof Code

2006-04-25 Thread Marco
> > Is this a crazy idea? Or is it even possible? I guess its not possible to > garuantee 100% compatability but even 90 - 95% would be a start. > I guess this is a crazy idea since no-one has commented :-) Oh well... does anyone have any suggestions on how we can encourage the deployment of php

Re: [PHP-DEV] script upgrading program was Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Summerof Code

2006-04-15 Thread Marco
Something I always thought would be cool to do and havent seen anywhere (or even know if its possible) is script or extension which can scan a php 4 app and point out area's where the code isnt compatible with php 5.. similar to the analyzer in zend studio I guess. This would help people audit exis

Re: [PHP-DEV] script upgrading program was Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Summerof Code

2006-04-15 Thread Steph Fox
If you wrote something like this in PHP you'd necessarily be searching for patterns in the code. In C you'd be working with tokens directly - coding style wouldn't be an issue. Isnt that what we have ext/tokenizer for? Wouldn't that be relatively slow? Also there's the psychological differen