Hi All, Keri Henare wrote: > We're all PHP5 at Pixel Fusion and try to convince our clients to make > sure that their host is providing PHP5. > > I'm interested to see what the uptake of PHP5.3 will be as I've seen a > lot of hosts that have upgraded to PHP5 but are still running earlier > versions such as 5.1 or 5.2. They don't seem to keep up to date. >
One of the reasons for this is that you want a stable version of PHP & don't want websites breaking when they upgrade. No-one wants that for their customers, right? Debian for example backport fixes & you don't have to update to get the latest features & this is great, but they're often well behind what is considered "current". The PHP development team tend to bundle security fixes & new features, which create bugs & cause all number of headaches. PHP 5.2.10 was great, no new features only bug fixes, but unfortunately there are not enough of bug fix only releases & not a clear development path for integrators / hosting providers. I consider a sane development cycle practice to be something like: Major releases with new features: 5.x, Minor releases with bug & security fixes only: 5.x.y I probably wouldn't recommend upgrading a production server to PHP 5.3 until I had seen at least 5.3.1 & 5.3.2 come out, and longer for more critical apps. This is because with all the new features its going to need some time to bed down. As long as the PHP development team keep rolling features in with security & bug fixes they're making it very easy for the hosting companies to not upgrade, because instead of one major upgrade every 30 months they're effectively being asked to do 1 every 3 months. Or to put it another way: Instead of taking the time to test PHP 5.3, your systems guys have really only just finished running customer trials / 10% of their sites on 5.2.9 This is just my opinion & not necessarily my employers etc. Best Regards, Quintin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
