Re: [PHP4BETA] Running PHP3 and PHP4

At 18:06 07/09/1999 , Stig Bakken wrote:

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Sascha Schumann wrote: | On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 05:09:27PM +0200, Stig Bakken wrote: | > On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Andrey Zmievski wrote: | > | > | Is there a way to set up both PHP3 and PHP4 to run as Apache modules | > | on the same server? | > | > Only if you find and rename all functions in php4 with the same name but | > different return value/arguments than the same function in php3. |

|     I think this is called "versioning." Sun has used it for
|     years in their libraries and GNU libc 2.1 uses it by default
|     as well.

I seriously think we should make it possible for users to link with both php3 and php4, especially when it is more or less just a matter of adding a few defines to php3_compat.h.

It isn't. PHP 3.0 and 4.0 modules may interfere with each other; Finding and changing the names of all of the API functions is very annoying task, and isn't something we want to do generally (why rename the API?), etc. I'm against it. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il