Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:30475 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 51112 invoked by uid 1010); 6 Jul 2007 03:47:41 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 51094 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2007 03:47:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Jul 2007 03:47:41 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ceo@l-i-e.com; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ceo@l-i-e.com; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain l-i-e.com from 67.139.134.202 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ceo@l-i-e.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 67.139.134.202 o2.hostbaby.com FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) (2) Received: from [67.139.134.202] ([67.139.134.202:1727] helo=o2.hostbaby.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 6B/03-26602-D5BBD864 for ; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:47:41 -0400 Received: (qmail 86491 invoked by uid 98); 6 Jul 2007 03:47:45 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 by o2.hostbaby.com (envelope-from , uid 1013) with qmail-scanner-2.01 (clamdscan: 0.88.7/3603. Clear:RC:1(127.0.0.1):. Processed in 0.070861 secs); 06 Jul 2007 03:47:45 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO l-i-e.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Jul 2007 03:47:44 -0000 Received: from 24.1.37.132 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ceo@l-i-e.com) by www.l-i-e.com with HTTP; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 22:47:44 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <2169.24.1.37.132.1183693664.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: References: <1181829227.3478.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4677E7B1.2080305@lerdorf.com> <4677F5FB.1070206@lerdorf.com> <4678252F.2050803@sci.fi> <46783212.4020900@lerdorf.com> <34654.216.230.84.67.1183064088.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> <54557.78.61.224.253.1183098089.squirrel@avilys.eik.lt> <4684BB91.4070507@zend.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 22:47:44 -0500 (CDT) To: "Alexey Zakhlestin" Cc: "Pierre" , "Stanislav Malyshev" , "Tomas Kuliavas" , internals@lists.php.net Reply-To: ceo@l-i-e.com User-Agent: Hostbaby Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What is the use of "unicode.semantics" in PHP 6? From: ceo@l-i-e.com ("Richard Lynch") On Fri, June 29, 2007 3:25 am, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote: > The thing which I don't understand is: why do people want backward > compatibility that much? Because if you run a webhost with a zillion users, half of whom are screaming for PHP 6, and half of whom are screaming because something broke, you're a very unhappy company. Because if you have plug-in web-apps like forums, guestbooks, ... you don't want to re-write the damn things. > Call to developers: > Create new versions of your apps/libraries which use new features of > language. Make your users interested in upgrading. If users want it, > hosting-owners will consider upgrades faster. It's all about > marketing ;) And your code will be used by a tiny tiny fraction of the potential audience... -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?