Hi,
we were just pondering how many of you still rely on PHP4 support since we'd make life easier and drop it on devel-vnext completely. Same goes for our DB logic, MDB2 is very mature currently - should we rely on it exclusively?
Thoughts? Comments? Feedback?
Hi everyone.. I haven't posted before, I just have a few lists that I follow the dev discussion on for a few reasons, and this is one of them. I'm also on the squirrelmail-dev list, and right now the same discussion is going on. It started with a post by a developer of the Drupal project and has gone from there. I encourage everyone interested to read through that thread as they explore this idea in some more detail:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel/8644
I personally think it's a good idea to move forward and use PHP5. Really, the main reason PHP5 apps aren't being built is just because of that one thing that people are mentioning, their host doesn't have it installed. But if they had an incentive to upgrade, they would. I personally think this mentality is hindering progress, but I also respect others' viewpoints on the matter. The move to apache2 has been compared, and I think that's another example where the move should be done. It has support for threading, so when a new request comes in, an entire server process doesn't have to be forked! What a tremendous potential resource savings if all hosts were to just switch... That's just one example, there are lots more..
Regards,
- Matt