Re: Re: [PEPr] Comment on HTML::HTML_TagCloud

On Fri Jun 16, 2006 at 01:4136PM +0200, Hannes Magnusson wrote: > Running under PHP6 I get 2 E_STRICT warnings (and dozen E_NOTICEs) > running example2. Oh well, I must have missed that since 5.1.3 using "var" does not raise an E_STRICT warning anymore. Thanks, Hannes. > Don't get me wrong, I hate those bloody PHP4 packages - but in those > cases were the package can run under PHP4 without massive modification > I am all for it, but the primary goal should of course to take > advantage of the new OO model, WHEN it makes sense. > In this case, I can't see any reason for why this package shouldn't be > PHP4 compatible. In this particular case there is indeed no technical advantage when using PHP 5. This is why Pierre-Alain broke out the "syntactic sugar" argument. Unfortunately this is only half of the truth: I suppose most of us would be happy to see PHP 5 gain importance, but at the same we don't give people a killer argument to do the transition by adding PHP 4-compatible packages (I repeat myself here) two years after going public with 5.0.0. My theory is that until a handful of prominent projects like PEAR, phpMyAdmin, Wordpress, et al. take heart to force PHP 5 on their users, we will see a huge market share for PHP 4 by the time that PHP 6 is released. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing we should be looking forward to. - Martin