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To: Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Remove deprecated functionality in PHP 7
From: indeyets@gmail.com (Alexey Zakhlestin)

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> On 21 Dec 2014, at 16:53, Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
>=20
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 02:30:28PM +0100, Nikita Popov wrote:
>=20
>=20
>> Please take a look at the WordPress version statistics:
>> https://wordpress.org/about/stats/
>>=20
>> According to these statistics 72% of the WordPress installations are
>> running on either PHP 5.2 or PHP 5.3. This means that they do not =
benefit
>> from the quite substantial performance and memory usage improvements =
that
>> went into PHP 5.4. So, if people aren't willing to upgrade from PHP =
5.2/5.3
>> to PHP 5.4, I don't see how they'd be more interested in PHP 7.
>=20
> I am running PHP 5.3.3 on my servers. Why ?
>=20
> Summary: running newer versions is a lot of effort.
>=20
> I run CentOS 6 so I run the PHP that is packaged for it. While it =
might be nice
> to have PHP 5.6 it would involve me in a lot of work (compile from =
source) and I
> would need to do that with each new release/patch. As it is I just go =
'yum
> update' and security fixes, ..., are all installed - easy peasy.

did you hear about RHSCL?
=
http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/06/04/red-hat-software-collections-rh=
scl-1-1-now-ga/

it solves this usecase nicely


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