On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:52:27 -0500, Larry Garfield <lar...@garfieldtech.com>
wrote:

I have noticed a growing trend to offer both. Frankly, I think that you're correct in #5 being in the (growing) minority. But I believe this is all due to the lack of how-to/documentation for providing a reliable process to run
multiple versions of PHP on the same boxen. Truth be known; I spent two entire days searching for a reliable and straight-forward approach to doing just that. The closest thing I discovered in meeting that goal was running two PHP installs in two different directories (PHP4 as base install in default dir: php and PHP5 in same $prefix but in php5 dir) then running php as Apache lib and assigning libphp5.so to PHP5 enabled folder (or extension - .php5) and assigning libphp4.so as default and for .php. This works fine for *BSD because of the way *BSD loads libraries. But not so for most other *NIX like OS's - most notably Linux. So, while this method will work fine for me and my 50+ *BSD server farm. It isn't /even/ a good "generic" method for the Internet at large. Probably the best solution would be for one of the seasoned developers whom undoubtedly runs more than one version on his/her boxen as a necessity, to share their experience in achieving this working environment. Better still;
posting this prominently on the front page of the php.net site (or the documentation
page). That way it would eliminate (or nearly) all fear of offering more (or all)
versions of PHP, and PHP4 would simply fade away as ppl can more easily migrate to 5, or
6 without giving it a second thought.

I would also contend that there is also an incentive to listing their site on your page, as it gives them higher visibility. :) This, of course skews the results.

Thanks again for the response.

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