Re: [PHP4BETA] changing all "php3" to "php4" ?

At 17:17 27/05/99 , Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

I may have missed it, but is there a reason not to change all instances of php3 to php4 in the code? It would be nice it if was possible to run php3 and php4 modules concurrently. Have I missed something that would stop us from doing this with a bit of renaming?

Two things. First, there isn't any point in supporting both versions since PHP4 is downwards compatible with PHP3. Before anybody comes back saying 'no way, it's not', my answer is that we'll release it only when this sentence is true. That's the whole point about PHP4, and the fact that you can't run both versions concurrently would sort of prove that point. Second, you can't do it. There are functions with no php3_ prefix that have changed (for example, getParameters(); there are many more) and it won't work anyway, as only one version will get linked. Since I don't consider it a good thing to run both versions concurrently, I don't want to even try sorting that problem out. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il -- PHP 4 Beta