Re: PHP 5

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 11:48:42 +0100, Björn Schotte wrote: >* Stig S. Bakken wrote: >> And the $10,000 question: how much work should we put into giving people >> a smooth migration path? I would like to get everyone running PHP 5 >> ASAP, but this is of course utopic. I'd like to hear peoples' opinions >> on this. > >At the moment I don't know how to establish a smooth >migration path, but I think we shouldn't forget those >mass hosters out there who won't upgrade to PHP5 very >quickly. Not only mass hosters will IMO stick to PHP 4 for some time: I can think of a lot of mid-size projects which highly rely on PHP 4's behaviour and which will not survive a switch to PHP 5 - so there will be also some small providers etc. that will not switch to PHP 5 soon, simply because they don't have the time to change their applications (which is basically a good sign for the companies order situation :-)). Currently I see the following future for PHP 4/5: A lot of providers will run two different server setups in the future: Their existing projects will run on PHP 4 installations and the new projects will be developed on PHP 5 perhaps together with Apache 2. So we can IMHO expect a lot of remaining installations of PHP 4 in the future, which can't be neglected by PEAR. >How about providing two "PEARs"? One repository/web site >area for PHP4 compatible PEAR, one for the next generation >PHP5? I suggest (as I wrote in my previous mail) to keep the existing code compatible to PHP 4. I don't care very much if _new_ packages are only compatible to PHP 5. - Martin -- Martin Jansen, <mail@martin-jansen.de> http://www.martin-jansen.de/