Re: [RFC] Remove deprecated functionality in PHP 7

> On 21 Dec 2014, at 16:53, Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 02:30:28PM +0100, Nikita Popov wrote: > > >> Please take a look at the WordPress version statistics: >> https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ >> >> According to these statistics 72% of the WordPress installations are >> running on either PHP 5.2 or PHP 5.3. This means that they do not benefit >> from the quite substantial performance and memory usage improvements that >> went into PHP 5.4. So, if people aren't willing to upgrade from PHP 5.2/5.3 >> to PHP 5.4, I don't see how they'd be more interested in PHP 7. > > I am running PHP 5.3.3 on my servers. Why ? > > Summary: running newer versions is a lot of effort. > > I run CentOS 6 so I run the PHP that is packaged for it. While it might be nice > to have PHP 5.6 it would involve me in a lot of work (compile from source) and I > would need to do that with each new release/patch. As it is I just go 'yum > update' and security fixes, ..., are all installed - easy peasy. did you hear about RHSCL? http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/06/04/red-hat-software-collections-rhscl-1-1-now-ga/ it solves this usecase nicely -- Alexey Zakhlestin CTO at Grids.by/you https://github.com/indeyets PGP key: http://indeyets.ru/alexey.zakhlestin.pgp.asc

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