# Supporting php4 (was: Object Equality)

- Thread: https://externals.io/message/5165
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- Started by Thomas Lamy on 2003-11-03T09:06:29+00:00
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## #5165 — Thomas Lamy — 2003-11-03T09:06:29+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/5165#5165

Andi Gutmans wrote:
> 
> At 03:42 PM 10/9/2003 +0100, Wez Furlong wrote:
> > […]
> Hi Wez,
> 
> Your patch breaks BC in 4.3.x. As the problem has been solved 
> in PHP 5, I 
> suggest we don't add the patch and wait for the major version 
> to break BC 
> (very slightly).
> 
> Andi
> 
Hi,
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...

Thomas

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## #5166 — Andi Gutmans — 2003-11-03T09:27:09+00:00

URL: https://externals.io/message/5165#5166 · In reply to: #5165

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