Re: Strategy

[Max H. <ma...@fl...>]

Hi Ray,

> > > What's important is that the way I'm writing stuff at the moment
> > > relys on people having PHP4 - for example I used foreach(). I think
> > > it's reasonable now to expect people to have php4. Any comments?
> >
> >It would surely make things a lot easier if we require PHP4. And now
> >that PHP4 has been out for over 2 years I don't think it's too much to
> >ask of people, that they upgrade to the new and improved version from
> >PHP version 3.
>
> Eh, sorry guys, my provider has two types of accounts:
> - the low cost with php3, no mysql, low bandwidth, little disk space
> - the high cost with php4, mysql high bandwidth, lots of disk space
>
> I can't afford the high cost account type so I stick with the low cost type.
> Someone in this list suggested a while a go to persuade my provider to get
> php4, but the only answer I got is: "No, I will not install php4, but you
> can get the high cost account".
> I guess a lot of people are in this situation. So therefor I would strongly
> recommend not to dispose the php3 code.

My feeling is that you're in a minority here - I think that most hosts
have upgraded by now.

It's a balance of where our priorities lie - continue with the old code,
or work on the new. PHPWeather 2 is really quite a bit better than the 1.x
branch. I'd like to develop it using the tools that are available.

Especially, note that PHP3 has a big security hole, so your host has a
choice of patch php3 or install 4, it's not that big a deal. They might
not do it, but that's a different question...

Max

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