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168 messages in net.php.lists.internalsRe: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4?| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Subject: | Re: [PHP-DEV] RIP PHP 4? | Actions... |
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| From: | Larry Garfield (lar...@garfieldtech.com) | |
| Date: | Jul 9, 2007 10:55:53 pm | |
| List: | net.php.lists.internals | |
On Monday 09 July 2007, chris# wrote:
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.
Better docs on how to run PHP 4 and PHP 5 at the same time would likely be helpful, and someone is working on that for GoPHP5.org, I think. However, your claim that "you have millions... of lines of code that have to be nearly completely rewritten to be usable in PHP 5" is not true. Sure, you could completely rewrite your app, but unless you're doing something very very dependent on objects passing by value porting a PHP 4 app to run correctly in PHP 5 is not the herculean task that some make it out to be. You don't /have/ to rewrite everything to use objects. Even the procedural code is easier, with the extra array manipulation routines. :-)
That sounds like more of a marketing issue.
-- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 lar...@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012
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