On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 20:01:22 +0200, Marco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
>
> Marco
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