On 01/04/15 07:28, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > You may think if we ban > enhancement then people would jump to 7.x in droves - but I have yet to > see anybody taking decisions this way. So far statistics says people > still are in 5.3 and 5.4 massively - though we do not add features there > for quite some time. So it doesn't look like not adding features makes > people to move on.
Practical example. I still have several sites on 5.2 hosting. They need upgrading before they will run on 5.4 ... and while they would work on 5.3 with warnings switched off there is no point making that switch. They HAVE to be modified for 5.4, and that takes time :( Retesting all of the 5.4 stuff on a later version will wait until everything is on 5.4! None of these 'small self-contained additions' have any use in maintaining the existing sites, and so there is little point even bothering with 5.5 or 5.6 if 7.0 is going to be out before the last of the 5.2 sites have been upgraded. Hence my development server having both 5.4 and 7.0 running in parallel. Yes 5.6-latest is a third option on that but only until 7.0 IS released. Th switch to 7.0 will not be because of the 'new additions'. Even type hinting will only be a hindrance to be lived with rather than a 'must have' feature simply because it does nothing to help the real problems of data validation! That code is already present and working. The ONLY reason for moving forward is to keep what is currently working perfectly on 5.2 still working on a later version. Renaming everything to some new standard gives nothing but restoring the performance improvements that eaccelerator currently provides is another holding up a move from 5.4 ... -- 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