On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: >> >> If you do commercial support for customers and do not control the >> environment and/or use shared hosting, then something is totally wrong >> in your business model. It is also really off topic, in this mailing >> list or in this discussion. > > > It is totally on topic! > > The REASON I have gained this particular additional customer base is because > they are all having problems with keeping their sites active! I had hoped to > be producing a better set of documentation to help these type of users to > cope with the 'BC compatibility' problems they are currently fighting, but > there is nothing consistent to document. There are as many problems as > customers with several years of legacy code written by different programmers > :( THEY are not programmers ... > > I hope that as some point there will be some REAL support for stopping > 'developing' PHP5 and move all of the new 'features' being discussed into a > nice cleanly isolated PHP6 development stream. Then we can start documenting > what IS being removed and stop trying to track which legacy feature needs to > be re-worked rather than simply burying heads in sand and hiding them!!! > > My current roadmap is based on PHP5.4 servers with nothing hidden and > eventually all of the code will be moved forward to that base, but I simply > can't justify charging some customers for all the time this takes because > they HAVE working sites currently and this is not giving them any return. > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >
> I hope that as some point there will be some REAL support for stopping > 'developing' PHP5 and move all of the new 'features' being discussed into a > nice cleanly isolated PHP6 development stream. Just see it as a car: you can drive it 10 years or longer, but from time to time you need new tires or repair some stuff. Regards, Thomas -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
