On 2012-01-06 15:36, Thomas Bruederli wrote:
till wrote:
Do you guys have any thoughts on going all the way with 5.3+?
That would, of course, be desirable from a developers perspective but remembering all the complaints when moving to 5.2 as a minimum requirement I guess it's to early. Hosting companies and linux distributors seem to lag behind the ongoing development and still have 5.2 in their repositories. PHP 5.4 is still not released stable and until that we should at least support one major version more than just the most recent one.
as both a hoster and programmer myself, i completely agree with you.
on the hosting side, it will still take some time for a php 5.2 to php 5.3 transition because
(a) there are still supported distros with php 5.2 (think: never touch a running system) and
(b) there are plenty of customers, ignorant to software updates, who are still running non php 5.3 compatible appplications (e.g. joomla 1.5) or custom code which makes a (forced) transition even harder ...
(of course, you can run php 5.2 and php 5.3 side by side but that increases maintenance efforts)
so +1 for keeping 5.2 compatibility a little longer.
cheers, raoul