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Subject:	Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?	Actions...
From:	chris# (chr...@codewarehouse.NET)
Date:	Jul 9, 2007 1:37:19 am
List:	net.php.lists.internals

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 20:01:22 +0200, Marco <mark...@gmail.com> wrote:

Have you ever asked yourselves... why? why PHP5's adoption is so bad?

I think we have all asked that very same question and the answer is a mix of a few standard issues.

I will venture to say that the biggest issue was; no transition period. That is to say that PHP4 and PHP5 are two completely different creatures. There was no "morphing" period. After several years of working with PHP3/4 in this fashion, /suddenly/ most of those rules no longer applied (in PHP5). You've got millions - perhaps billions of lines of code that have to be nearly completely rewritten to be usable in PHP5. Perhaps a better solution would be to document an answer to running PHP4, PHP5, and PHP6 on the same boxen for the most popular OS's. Then there would be little reason for anyone not to adopt any version(s) of their choosing, and little reason to complain about an EOL. Seems a sure answer to me.

The hard part has always been deciding how to move it forward. Without the customers demanding change hosts wont do it, without the hosts support application developers are reluctant to move to PHP 5 only versions.

One of the issue's cited was lack of popular opensource projects supporting PHP 5, maybe we should all encourage our favorite packages to sign up to http://gophp5.org/ as this seems like an interesting idea on how to speed up the migration.

Regards

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