Re: [SMARTY-DEV] GoPHP5

just to clearify: (for me) dropping support for PHP <= 5.2 does not mean rewriting the whole code base, but more important making it more easier adopt new features without taking care of old PHP versions -> this results in no completely new code which will probably break old themes btw. i think Smarty dev team is (currently) lacking man power to do a full rewrite - and reducing supported PHP versions will also help the lacking man power! When developing on PHP 5 it would be very helpfull if major libraries like Smarty would not flood the log with E_STRICT/NOTICEs when testing own application Just remembering: E_STRICT/NOTICE is used in PHP 5 to warn about possible changes in PHP 6 too so it will help with transition to PHP 6 too. Of course a Project like Smarty should still support a legacy version for security fixes and possible minor bug fixes - but i think this is a low effort task - at least for such a major app like Smarty is. Some of the arguments mentioned here are exactly the reason for GoPHP5 -> breaking the cycle! apps run in PHP 4 -> hosters provide PHP 4 -> lacy developers do not fix there apps to run with PHP 5 -> hosters must provide PHP 4 -> apps must run with PHP 4 -> hosters provide PHP 4 -> ... uh oh thats wired! The question is not how it helps YOUR project but how it HELPS THE COMMUNITY! -> this resulting in helping your project! Please read the reasons on gophp5.org carefully and linked discussions -> it does not help discuss the same here already discussed 100 times on another mailinglists (at least before reading through them). btw. http://news.php.net/php.internals/30508 -- Sebastian Mendel www.sebastianmendel.de