IMHO backporting a lot of features to PHP4 is a major reasons for the slow PHP5 adoption. Basically, it seems that everybody who is not using OOP feels that PHP4 is fine for them.
I'd say committing to backporting stuff from PHP6 to PHP5 will yield a similar situation: very slow or no PHP6 adoption. BTW, can't the unicode switch be done at compile time? So one can compile PHP6 Unicode and PHP6 non-Unicode. Then if there is a clever way of running both engines in parallel, there should be no performance impact inside the non-unicode engine. Since there is both versions of the engine (that can maybe even selected by a certain statement in the main PHP file of the application), unicode and non-unicode users are happy. And there is only one version of PHP in the market, to conquer it all. There must be a reason to upgrade to a new PHP version (usually features, maybe performance increase etc.). But there also must be no reason not to upgrade. But you all know this, it has been said before. Kind regards, Stefan -- >e-novative> - We make IT work for you. e-novative GmbH - HR: Amtsgericht München HRB 139407 Sitz: Wolfratshausen - GF: Dipl. Inform. Stefan Priebsch http://www.e-novative.de -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
