cand. inf. Alexander M. Turek schrieb:
Hi Marc & list,
I just noticed this interesting discussion and felt like joining it. I definitely support the idea of dropping php 4 support. phpMyAdmin has a manpower problem so getting rid of costly compatibility unmaintainable might be a step into the right direction.
Marc Delisle schrieb:
and drop MySQL 3.x and 4.0 support to?
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am in favor of dropping support for MySQL 3.x.
Compatibility drops like this should not be made often, otherwise you create many legacy versions the need to be maintained and security-patched. This is why I'd suggest that support for older MySQL branches should be dropped together with php 4.
Current phpMyAdmin versions should support the full feature set of MySQL 3.23, 4.0 and 4.1. Users of those branches won't benefit much from future phpMyAdmin releases, imho.
I know, that the idea of working with MySQL >= 5 only might sound a bit=
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i fully agree!
i would also like to support only MySQL >= 5 and PHP >= 5(.2)
i was just a little bit more carefull saying only 4.1 ... ;-)
the main reason i see, like Alexander already said, is the current amount of time and code needed to provide BC