Re: Strategy

[Martin G. <gim...@gi...>]

"Ray van Beek" <r_v...@ho...> writes:

>> > 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.
>=20
> 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
>=20
> 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 really hope that cases like this are the minority - your provider
doesn't seams to provide much service to it's customers.

Since you're paying for this "service" I would either demand a current
version of PHP or find another provider.

> I guess a lot of people are in this situation. So therefor I would
> strongly recommend not to dispose the php3 code.

I would also like to support PHP3, but I think it would take a lot of
effort to do so. And we would limit ourselves to work-arounds which
would be slower and more difficult to get right.

Could we have a quick vote on the list? There's 36 people on the list,
so it wouldn't have any statistical significance, but it would give an
indication of the number of people who still runs PHP3.

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