On Fri, June 29, 2007 3:25 am, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote: > The thing which I don't understand is: why do people want backward > compatibility that much?
Because if you run a webhost with a zillion users, half of whom are screaming for PHP 6, and half of whom are screaming because something broke, you're a very unhappy company. Because if you have plug-in web-apps like forums, guestbooks, ... you don't want to re-write the damn things. > Call to developers: > Create new versions of your apps/libraries which use new features of > language. Make your users interested in upgrading. If users want it, > hosting-owners will consider upgrades faster. It's all about > marketing ;) And your code will be used by a tiny tiny fraction of the potential audience... -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
