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Supporting php4 (was: Object Equality)

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Thomas Lamy

22 years ago
Andi Gutmans wrote:
> > At 03:42 PM 10/9/2003 +0100, Wez Furlong wrote: > >Interestingly enough, I brought up this issue just over a year > >ago. Even more interesting is that I stumbled across my original > >post from that time while looking into something else today. > > > >http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.dev&article=88735 > > > >(patch included) > > > >--Wez. > 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

Andi Gutmans

22 years ago
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

Mike Robinson

22 years ago
Andi Gutmans wrote:
> At 10:06 AM 11/3/2003 +0100, Thomas Lamy > > > This is why I'm +1 for a 4.5 release, right before 5 goes out. > > This shouldinclude 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.
Absolutely. The process of a 4.5 release would be far too cumbersome on the PHP5 release plans. Best Regards Mike Robinson

DvDmanDT

22 years ago
Is there a reason there's no 4.4.x release?
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