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

> The whole point of the beta period is that the transition phase will be > nullified. As someone that has a lot of experience with testing PHP3 web > sites with PHP4, I truly don't agree with you. Sure, we've recognized one > thing that doesn't work with PHP4 and does work with PHP3, but it's > extremely rare and makes no sense (which is why we don't support it in > Zend). The number of people that will be bitten by it is negligible, and > they'll be covered by the changes file that we'll release. > Simply put, I don't want to release PHP4 if there's any transition phase > required. We'll refine it until it's not necessary. If people would still > want it, they could do it using CGI. > Just to make it clear, it doesn't even remotely resemble the situation with > php/fi2 and php3, as I'm sure you realize. I don't want to make people get > the impression that it is in fact similar and that they need to slowly > migrate, instead of just upgrade. And I understand all that, but in order for us to get that far, we need people testing PHP4. In order for me to do any real testing of PHP4, I need to put it on real web servers, and I am not prepared to yank PHP3 from those servers at this point. And I am sure you would agree with that. In the end, it is fine with me if Joe User can't use php3 and php4 at the same time, but for me personally, I would be in a much better position to test php4 if it would work alongside php3. > What do you mean symbol clashes? I can't seem to understand how a clash > between getParameters() from PHP3 and getParameters() from PHP4 can be > solved easily change one > Anyway, hardly anybody uses them as DSOs. Ok, not hardly anybody, but most > people don't. They'll probably have a harder time getting DSOs to work, > than getting PHP4 to work with all of their scripts, which typically, would > require no work. I predict 90% of Apache PHP users will use the APXS build mechanism within 3 months from now for both php3 and php4. Certainly all RedHat users will end up using the DSO build. And probably just about every Linux user. -Rasmus -- PHP 4 Beta