Re: PHP6 thoughts about Engine changes

Stas Malyshev wrote:

I think if we try to bite off too much we've end up where Unicode effort ended - a lot of work ending up in achieving nothing. I think we need to have a plan of something that can realistically be done in, say, a year or two, and that makes common users (ones that don't care how exactly our parsing library is called but have thousands upon thousands of lines of code to upgrade and thousands of developers to adopt it) be eager to buy into it, something that makes their lives immediately better and worth the pain of the upgrade.

And there are good examples outside PHP that prove the point :) Just been playing with another 'python' powered package that is still P2 because the developer does not have time to do all the work involved to move to P3. Just how many important PHP applications are still stuck pre PHP5.4 and need some TLC to bring them forward ... It is irritating that we have to work with quite so many different languages. It would be nice if PHP was tidy enough to be the single base for web based services! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk