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] <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. [email protected] > Technischer Leiter > > IPAX - Aloy Bhatia Hava OG web. http://www.ipax.at > Barawitzkagasse 10/2/2/11 email. [email protected] > 1190 Wien tel. +43 1 3670030 > FN 277995t HG Wien fax. +43 1 3670030 15 > ____________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/ > BT/e21360c6 >
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