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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Things move slowly in the real world ;)
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Sanford Whiteman wrote:
> Lester, are you seriously suggesting we coddle providers who either
>
> [a] Willfully misrepresent the PHP versioning system, showing they are
> utterly tuned out of the PHP support community?

Well they are only one of the ISP's who have been posting PHP6 as their next 
supported version, and been waiting for it to appear. These are the people who 
have to support naive users who are NOT in a position to re-write code just to 
make it work with later versions of PHP5, and needing to still run PHP5.2 in 
parallel with PHP5.4 is not the easiest thing to do on shared hosting?

But I was posting it so that people will not be surprised when 'php6' starts 
appearing in bug reports where users have changed and now need help to fix the 
problems. I stopped using 1&1's versions of PHP a number of years ago, switching 
to my own machines with them simply so I could control versions but I can quite 
understand why they have not switched away from PHP5.2 and they are now 
providing PHP5.4 as a selectable option, but which HAS to co-exist with their 
existing working infrastructure! How else could this situation be handled?

I'm lead to believe that the date was chosen simply because they do consider the 
situation a bit of a joke ...

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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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