Re: [Tsheetx-developers] Language switch

[Peter L. <pal...@gm...>]

I think this is a difficult issue.

Looking at it from what software I run and the platform I develop on, I 
keep my Fedora system up to date at least every six months and often 
more frequently. So the code I test is against a fairly recent version 
of PHP which is probably not installed much worldwide.

We are a bunch of amateur developers, and I mean that in the nicest 
possible way. Whatever platform we have at home, is what we develop on 
and test against. If we are to have a set range of supported PHP levels, 
then we have to become a bunch of organised amateur developers. That 
means we will have to maintain a few levels of PHP on our systems to 
test TSNG against. That testing could take place on a planned release of 
TSNG I think, following a release plan agreed by all.

Peter

On 05/09/2011 06:05 PM, David Thompson wrote:
> We've had this kind of problem in the past, and I think will have it 
> in the future too.
> Two years ago it was the move from PHP v4 to v5, but now v5.1, v5.2 
> and v5.3 all seem to have significant differences (in their libraries).
>
> The problem is that PHP is faster than we are, but we could use that 
> to our advantage.
> Previously I proposed "mainstream", ie support the PHP version that 
> comes as standard with the main linux distros (was 5.2, but I think is 
> now 5.3).
>
> But maybe we should now go "bleeding-edge" and set 5.3 as a minimum. 
> It would avoid problems in development, and by the time we release it 
> should be mainstream.
>
> What's your experience?
>
> Tommo
>