Yeah, I suspect I am as well. I've written a fair bit of code that relies on the reference mechanism, and possibly code that depends on vars being passed by value. I'd really rather not find out ..
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carlo Florendo Sent: Friday, 1 April 2005 12:33 PM To: David Hogan Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: TSL 2.1 End of Life? David Hogan wrote: >I agree. I personally would have loved the choice between supported php4 and >php5 for TSL 2.2, or even better, coexistence of both if that were at all >possible. I would really just prefer to not spend the time to do extensive >testing of all my web applications to ensure that they do indeed work in all >scenarios. > >I find the exclusive jump to php5 quite strange, given the normal Trustix >policy of not jumping onboard the latest greatest things, for example not >using the 2.6 kernel in TSL 2.2. I would have thought that the Trustix >developers would err on the side of caution and if at all supporting php5, >at the least provide support for both versions. Especially since 2.2 is the >final release of a series that has always supported php4. > >Maybe the Trustix development team doesn't consider the php4->php5 migration >as a major thing, but as a full time php developer I seriously do. Sure, >people say 99% of scripts will simply work .. but what about that 1% that >wont. > I am part of the 1%. The jump from php4 to php5 was really a surprise. We run applications onder php4 and these apps just didn't work with php5. Migrating source codes and everything to php5, I attempted, was such a mess that I just quit. So now, what I did was to downgrade php5 to php4 to have all our sites working. -- Carlo Florendo Astra Philippines Inc. www.astra.ph _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
