Thijs Kinkhorst a écrit :
On Thu, June 14, 2007 13:39, Marc Delisle wrote:
phpMyAdmin has been invited by a group of well-known open source projects to participate in an initiative that is meant to promote PHP 5 and break the cycle where web hosts are not encouraged to upgrade to 5 because apps works on 4.
Specifically, if we agree to this, effective 5 February 2008, any new-feature release will have a minimum required PHP version of 5.2.0.
I like the idea of a group of projects doing this (so no one is penalized by being the first); I am in favor of this and would like your feedback.
Thanks Thijs for your feedback.
I'm not a member of the development team, but I'm missing the most important thing here: what are the concrete gains??
- Coding without always having to stay compatible with PHP 4 (gains in terms of OOP, removing some dead code)
- Because the PHP team will eventually stop to maintain PHP 4: avoiding to support our users who have PHP4-related problems
The most concrete drawback is that it will be hurting those users who have no control over their host's PHP config or have other reasons not to upgrade to PHP 5 yet.
We are talking about not releasing for PHP 4 our new-feature releases after 5 Feb 2008. Users who want to run the current phpMyAdmin version on PHP4 hosts will be able to; meanwhile they can put pressure on their hosts. And remember, this is part of a bigger movement that should convince providers to switch.
I can see a move to PHP5 only have some benefits, but what are those concretely? Can we have a list of improvements that will be possible in phpMyAdmin with this decision? And do they offset the drawback for those users I mentioned?
Sorry I cannot produce such list of improvements for the moment.
And if you decide to move to PHP5 only, how will PHP4-bound users be security-supported?
You are right, we will have to deal correctly with this; the stable phpMyAdmin version on 5 Feb 2008 will have to be maintained for some time.
thanks, Thijs