Chris Fordham wrote:
As said by others, there does need to be a reason for PHP5 change. Is there any proposed code that requires PHP5, probably not.
There are a few:
- better OOP with abstract classes (e.g. address book sources) and public/private/static declarations
- getting rid of the object reference issues
Of course the devs can make use of all the other nice features of PHP5 like exceptions, object iteration, autoloading, etc.
My vision would be that RC changes to PHP5 in a major release eg. Roundcube 2.
Just to mention the background of this thread:
Till is working on the vNext version which will be a major release and surely will take much time to complete. This includes a partial rewrite of the RoundCube code to make it more object oriented with a new approach for the client-server communication as stated in the draft (http://trac.roundcube.net/trac.cgi/wiki/RoundCube_vNext)
With all these changes, we could also get rid of our database abstraction class and either use PDO or implement MDB2.
~Thomas