On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Mark Krenz <m...@suso.org> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 07:22:10PM GMT, Robert Cummings > [rob...@interjinn.com] said the following: >> >> You are obviously right of course... the PHP world is NOT ready for the >> POSIX regex library to be dropped. That's why it's "deprecated" in PHP >> 5.3 and not removed. In a year or 3, when PHP 6 is released, one would >> hope that by then the PHP world WILL be ready. >> > > One would hope, but I've seen otherwise over the past 10 or 11 years > of administrating PHP. > You are just the one in seven billion. > Often times the latest supported versions of operating systems do not > contain a version of PHP that is recent or supported even. And > typically people will run a server for around 3-5 years so they end up > having a version of PHP that is way behind. PHP Developers may wonder > about this but it is completely acceptable and expected from a sysadmin > point of view. I know that I never feel like I'm on a supported > version of PHP, even though I'll use a recent OS version. Major versions can and will break backward compatibility. If your code does not ready for php6, then you have 3-10 years to port it to the php6. If you dont want to, then its fine, you dont have to. > > So what happens is if its timed right, many people will never be > running PHP 5.3 and will end up straight on PHP 6. > Why would somebody skip php 5.3 when porting the applications from 5.2 is easy, then switch to php6 to its release day? > I used the term overnight before and I think that confused people. > What I mean is overnight in terms of version numbers. For instance, > overnight would be like one patch level or even minor version to the > next. > > When a function is deprecated, I expect to see the warning for quite a > while before its actually removed. So if it just happens "overnight" > thats not acceptable, no matter how much time has passed. Its more > about version numbers than time. > If -at least- 3 years of warning is overnight for you, than I think I'm lucky to catch you awake. > > -- > Mark S. Krenz > IT Director > Suso Technology Services, Inc. > http://suso.org/ > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
I don't like the way that you say you are representing "the whole internet", it would be better if we can go for the one person one vote rule. Sorry for my english, I'm not a native speaker, and it's getting late. Tyrael -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
