Thanks Raoul, you're taking the words out of my mouth :D Being a hoster I see the same problematics with the migration 5.2->5.3. Big problem as example: Zend Optimizer to Zend Guard Loader. Completely different and encoded apps won't be working anymore. That's some huge bugger for a hoster. So +1 from me as well to stay 5.2 compliant.
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] r.bhatia@ipax.atwrote:
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 -- ____________________________________________________________________ DI (FH) Raoul Bhatia M.Sc. email. r.bhatia@ipax.at Technischer Leiter
IPAX - Aloy Bhatia Hava OG web. http://www.ipax.at Barawitzkagasse 10/2/2/11 email. office@ipax.at 1190 Wien tel. +43 1 3670030 FN 277995t HG Wien fax. +43 1 3670030 15 ____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/ BT/e21360c6
List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/ BT/aba52c80