On 23/02/15 20:57, Zeev Suraski wrote: > They don't upgrade even when there's > no or very little compatibility breakage. That's why 5.3 is still so > popular, and 5.2 isn't rare to find. Let alone 5.4.
You know my position here but not only are the problems of areas that were deprecated in 5.3 and removed in 5.4, trying to provide a hosted version of PHP that works for the older code while keeping the 5.4+ code happy is a problem. I've just been hit with a change of ownership of one of my legacy services and the new owner has 'upgraded' resulting in several sites now having problems. Yes they run but not clean and out of 8 sites I've acquired 5 completely different frameworks. Add in a change from Apache to Nginx ... you get the picture ... I've moved them all to one of my own machines with a 'compatible' build of PHP and we are working again. Should I have reworked each to get them running, yes, but which customer do you keep happy first? They WILL all be moved to a single modern framework ... and I've been saying that since 2012 ... but at least finally I HAVE a stable system on 5.4 which does seem to work with 5.6 and also with the current PHP7 build. However in the process I've lost eaccelerator which used to work well on the PHP5.2 hosting, so I need an alternative simply to stand still ... and while PHP7 is giving a speed improvement it still lags behind what I have on the PHP5.4 machines with eaccelerator. So first step get up to the same platform with all sites, but currently there is no incentive to switch to a slower system ... Your speed table from earlier shows a marked improvement up to PHP5.4 with eaccelerator loaded. PHP7 reduces memory usage and execution time against a basic PHP5.x but not against my PHP5.4/eaccelerator base ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
