Re: Proposal for serious BC compatibility aka language versioning

----- Ursprüngliche Message ----- > Von: Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> > An: "internals@lists.php.net" <internals@lists.php.net> > CC: > Gesendet: 13:42 Dienstag, 5.Februar 2013 > Betreff: Re: [PHP-DEV] Proposal for serious BC compatibility aka language versioning > > hakre wrote: >>> In reality we have to make choices where we DO spend time. There is > still a mile >>> >of code out there being used live which is running perfectly on the > PHP5.2 >>> >infrastructure. That needs testing and reworking on PHP5.3 and then > PHP5.4 >>> >before we get around to 5.5. >> Why do you change the infrastructure if the code does not need it? I mean, >> provide the infrastructure the code needs and done. There is more than one >> vendor that offers support for PHP 5.2 infrastructure in the market. What's >> the deal? > > The point here is supporting customers that I've 'acquired' who are > currently hosted on services that control that infrastructure. The long term aim > is to move them to servers under our control, but in the meantime until > contracts run out we have to live with such activity as 'We will be updating > to PHP5.3 on the 1st April'. The problem now is how to deal with that > situation, and paying up outstanding contracts may be the solution. The code > needs updating, and updating to 5.4 would be useful, but short term everything > needs testing and fixing for PHP5.3 :( This might be starting to become slightly off-topic for the list, but what prevents you from communicating the problem to your customers and also offering them the help they need? > The whole reason that ISP's are currently moving from PHP5.2 to PHP5.3 > rather than PHP5.4 is that there is a better chance that their client sites will > continue to work. I can not say that for the ISPs I use and I've been talking to. For the handmade ones it's more what their distro offers, for the commercially professional ones it's more what their users ask for. > http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/pl-php/5 use of > PHP5.1 is > slowing faster than 5.4 use is growing. I must admit I lack of skill reading statistics, however, I don't understand why you talk about PHP 5.1 while your problem is that some contracted services of your customers is changing to PHP 5.3 from 5.2. If you need a helping hand in porting legacy 5.2 code to 5.3, feel free to contact me. -- hakre