On 7/18/07, Wade Preston Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> *shrugs* Most of what I code nowadays is PHP5, but I don't see how > it matters one way or the other. Am I missing something? Does it > hurt the community to have my code running a generation behind? I think it does, yes. If no one is updating their code and progressing forward then the hosts don't update the versions they install on their servers… and if the servers don't have the new version then people are not motivated to write using the new features… and the cycle hinders progress.
I agree. I think it's especially a biggie for open source projects that have wide adoption. If the community doesn't seem to want the new versions, then new versions won't be created. And then people continue using hacks for the features they need (e.g. unicode support). My big concern in creating my current project in PHP 5 has been that there were many hosts that still didn't support PHP 5 and I want it to be easy to find a host for it. Jacob _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
