Re: [PHP-DEV] Easing major version upgrades

2012-09-08 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On 09/08/2012 12:26 PM, Lars Strojny wrote: > That’s indeed a different topic but it would ease a lot of pain to have a > fully compatible APC from day one. The first step to that is to make sure all new language features include the necessary changes to APC. And despite what Pierre thinks, it h

Re: [PHP-DEV] Easing major version upgrades

2012-09-08 Thread Lars Strojny
Hi Pierre, Am 08.09.2012 um 20:23 schrieb Pierre Joye : [...] > >> 3.) Upgrades are hard, let’s go shopping aka never change a running system > > What do you mean here? A general reluctance to change production systems because "they work". But as I said, not our problem. [...] > No chance to

Re: [PHP-DEV] Easing major version upgrades

2012-09-08 Thread Pierre Joye
hi Lars, On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Lars Strojny wrote: > with the release of PHP 5.4 a similar pattern happened as with the release of > 5.3: while we want people to upgrade as fast as possible, it is often a bumpy > road for users to migrate to new versions. There are various reasons fo