Re: Shall we leave PHP4 ??

Rodolfo Andrade wrote:

But, as some people already wrote, PHP4 support should end soon, as it happened to PHP3 when PHP4 was stable.

Please take into account that PHP 4 was almost 100% backwards compatible to PHP 3, the list of incompatible changes including explanations did fit on a single sheet of paper. From PHP 4 to 5 you have a completely different OO implementation though (and a few other changes), so while porting from 3 to 4 usually was easy and often didn't require any application code changes at all the story is completely different when it comes to porting from 4 to 5, especially with object oriented PHP 4 applications. So as our major releases become less backwards compatible over time (and this is going to become an even bigger issue with PHP 5 -> 6 afaict) we'll simply have to live with slower adoption rates and longer in-parallel maintenance intervals ... -- Hartmut Holzgraefe, Senior Support Engineer . MySQL AB, www.mysql.com Discover new MySQL Monitoring & Advisory features at: http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/whats_new.html Hauptsitz: MySQL GmbH, Radlkoferstr. 2, D-81373 München Geschäftsführer: Kaj Arnö - HRB München 162140