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Posted by Rich Kucera on 11/14/05 22:36
Holding all versions at 5.0.4, Multiple stacks with multiple-version
configurations inevitable
Will have to wait to see what the impact of problems such as
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=33643 to the application world. We may
wait for a suitable popular resolution and jump to that version in the
future. There's already a rift between PHP4 and PHP5, and then further
developments such as these create another, splitting the camp into 4.
The fix to the language nit affects both php4 and php5 going forward,
that is it breaks a lot of existing applications. I have had apps break
due to it.
There is also a discontinuity between MySQL 4 and MySQL 5. Apparently
the upgrade is so bad that XAMPP is not releasing an upgrade patch for
it's next versions. They require you to migrate the data manually.
Future versions of XAMPP stack are in doubt, or will at least be much
more of an effort now.
We can fix up our own code to run on certain stacks or versions of PHP
and MySQL, but we can't fix up all the 3rd party software that is out
there. Given the rate of brokenness between versions of the same thing
let alone configurations of things, multiple stacks are inevitable. Is
this cost-effective?
Or am I making a mountain out of a molehill?
Best regards,
-Rich
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