Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:5166 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 17595 invoked by uid 1010); 3 Nov 2003 09:27:18 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 17519 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2003 09:27:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.zend.com) (192.117.235.230) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 3 Nov 2003 09:27:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 19666 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2003 09:27:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO andi-laptop.zend.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Nov 2003 09:27:11 -0000 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20031103112523.07ac1898@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: andi@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:27:09 +0200 To: Thomas Lamy ,internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <656F04F343FC25409463829A15B5FDDC3F9605@netwake-nt.netwake. de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Supporting php4 (was: Object Equality) From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans) References: <656F04F343FC25409463829A15B5FDDC3F9605@netwake-nt.netwake.de> At 10:06 AM 11/3/2003 +0100, Thomas Lamy wrote: >does anyone care that there _will_ be a rather big number of folks >(isps/hosting companies/etc) that will stay with 4.x for some time even if >php5 is out? >For me (being a developer) this is no problem, because I always work with >the latest versions. But hosting comanies have to deal with 4 at least 'till >April 2004, if not June. If they have the manpower (and machines) to run >both (4 and 5), they will do so, but others will switch when they feel 5 is >stable enough. Until then, they will have to support 4. >This is why I'm +1 for a 4.5 release, right before 5 goes out. This should >include fixes that already are in 5, but were not applied to 4 for whatever >reason. I'm sure the above fix is not the only one being held back.. The above fix is being held back because it could only be fixed in a decent way with the new object model in PHP 5. This is not something which you would find fixed in PHP 4.5. I think we should continue to support PHP 4 with bug fixes and minor additions but the focus should definitely be on PHP 5 right now. Andi