Re: RFC: unicode.semantics: runtime or not?

Can anyone explain to me why it would be such a big problem to support PHP 6 and PHP 5 alongside one another? With PHP 6 effectively being a Unicode-supporting version of PHP 5? Or am I being weird and naive here? - Steph

As Andrei knows, I believe that not allowing to tune this on a per virtual host basis, is going to make life very hard for our users. A huge part of our users are hosting providers, or companies running multiple applications on the same machine. Probably a majority do not own dedicated boxes. This kind of limitation is going to not only slow down PHP 6 adoption, but I think it may also significantly impair PHP as a hosting friendly solution, and therefore, we could actually see a loss in overall PHP market share. I suggest to first make the theoreticaly decision that we prefer to support this on a per-request if it's feasible. When I say feasible it means with some but minimal pain. If it becomes a disaster we should re-evaluate. I'll try and spend the next week to try and see what the issues are and whether we can resolve them in an acceptable way. Andi