Re: PHP4 vs PHP5 Performance?

On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 00:28 -0500, Larry Garfield wrote: > On Friday 24 August 2007, Lester Caine wrote: > > > What would be interesting is if a group picked up PHP4 and kept going > > > with it in spite of the end of life announcement a few weeks back. I > > > wonder if the PHP license would allow such a thing. How open is it > > > exactly? > > > > The PROBLEM is that supporting PHP4, 5 and now 6 is detracting from solving > > some of these problems. Until we can get away from HAVING to support PHP4, > > then PHP5 will not get the full fine tuning it needs. Proposing to maintain > > a branch of PHP4 will then result n people expecting all of the major > > frameworks to work on it - and WE need to be able to concentrate on USING > > PHP5 properly rather than having to bodge things still to be backwards > > compatible with PHP4 :( > > The "major frameworks" have already agreed that PHP 4 is dead, even before the > PHP dev team did. > > http://gophp5.org/ *yawn* > Anyone expecting anything but a custom in-house application to continue to > work in PHP 4 by next year is simply not paying attention. Let it rest in > peace. I think many applications will continue to work in PHP4 regardless of the gophp5 project. It's not very hard to make applications work in both PHP4 and PHP5. I would argue that only an idiot needlessly cuts off more than half of their clientele. Elimination of PHP4 updates doesn't mean suddenly 100% of the PHP install base becomes PHP5. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................