Re: implicit reference

Am 01.02.2011 10:21, schrieb Mathias Grimm: > It is a 2-step-migration nonsense > step 1 - php 4 and 5.3 the best way to trash something beautiflul > step 2 - only php 5.3 step 1 requires horrible code and so much work and with step 2 you have even more work to get the trash from step 1 clean > because there are various clients using that system so let them run on a old machine with php 4 > the development cycle cant stop with bug fixing and new > features required by clients. the devleopment cycle will die because you trash too much time with nonsense work resulting in sleeping since years > no way to make a branch. no way to get it without because if your code is so ugly that it will not run with PHP5 you have so much changes you can not do on live-systems - remind that all your changes to be backward compatible can have side-effects in PHP4 and PHP5 We migrated 5 years ago to php5 and it took 2 hours because we are running the highest error-reporting in production and so we seen deprecated warnings long before and made the code clean What you do is a migration over 3 major-versions Yes, 5.2->5.3 is in some cases the same as 4->5 and this is a path which does not really exist > We know that in the step 1 is a very horrible solution, but its necessary. > Even with this compatible mode (php4 and 5.3) the system is getting 50% faster on php 5.3 have fun but let me remember that if you do this so the chance to shoot all down and waste much more time as making a branch for 5.3 with code-cleanups outside production level and update after all is done > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net > <mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net>> wrote: > > > > Am 31.01.2011 21:08, schrieb Mathias Grimm: > > the constraint is that all need to run on php4.3.6 and 5.3 > > this need does not exist since php4 died a long time ago and > now it's really time that some lazy people wake up > > everybody who has running php4 on prodcution servers has to be > fired - remember php5.2 support is even ending and of course > such stupid admins are tey one their servers get hacked and > used for spambots and other nice things the world do not need

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