Re: PHP 5 RC1

From: Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:42:31 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP 5 RC1
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Analysis & Solutions wrote: >The ability to run two versions at once makes compatibility testing way >easier for developers making software that uses PHP. For example, during >the transition from PHP 3 to PHP 4, I had .htm extensions mapped to PHP 3 >and .html extensions mapped to PHP 5. Both pages would include the same >PHP classes. This way I could pop back and forth between versions without >a problem. Last time I checked, you can't run PHP 4 & 5 as DSO on same apache on *nix, at least. (it crashes) I made the necessary changes for that to be possible in the config side.. The --enable-versioning doesn't seem to work at all with PHP 5 for some reason. I don't know if this is any different with windows. But for it to be even possible, you need to patch the stuff lot more than just rename the dlls. --Jani

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