On 2012-01-06 15:36, Thomas Bruederli wrote: > till wrote: >> Do you guys have any thoughts on going all the way with 5.3+? > > That would, of course, be desirable from a developers perspective but > remembering all the complaints when moving to 5.2 as a minimum requirement > I guess it's to early. Hosting companies and linux distributors seem to lag > behind the ongoing development and still have 5.2 in their repositories. > PHP 5.4 is still not released stable and until that we should at least > support one major version more than just the most recent one.
as both a hoster and programmer myself, i completely agree with you. on the hosting side, it will still take some time for a php 5.2 to php 5.3 transition because (a) there are still supported distros with php 5.2 (think: never touch a running system) and (b) there are plenty of customers, ignorant to software updates, who are still running non php 5.3 compatible appplications (e.g. joomla 1.5) or custom code which makes a (forced) transition even harder ... (of course, you can run php 5.2 and php 5.3 side by side but that increases maintenance efforts) so +1 for keeping 5.2 compatibility a little longer. cheers, raoul -- ____________________________________________________________________ DI (FH) Raoul Bhatia M.Sc. email. [email protected] Technischer Leiter IPAX - Aloy Bhatia Hava OG web. http://www.ipax.at Barawitzkagasse 10/2/2/11 email. [email protected] 1190 Wien tel. +43 1 3670030 FN 277995t HG Wien fax. +43 1 3670030 15 ____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/ BT/8f4f07cd
