Posted by Jochem Maas on 09/14/05 15:53

Jim Moseby wrote:
>>Personally I keep using PHP 4 and do not see the motivation
>>to upgrade.
>>First because, for me, PHP 4 is already a feature complete
>>language for
>>Web development. Second, because I do not have the time nor
>>the patience
>>to chase all the backward incompatibilities of PHP 5 that
>>will break the
>>code of my sites.
>>
>>Actually I am even scared to try PHP 5 in sites that I have
>>with large
>>code bases because it is very hard to fully test them in development
>>environment.
>>
>>It is not impossible to test a large site in development
>>environment to
>>find the possible problems, but it would take a lot of time and still
>>many details could escape, so I am not interested to risk and
>>put a site
>>up malfunctioning due to PHP 5 incompatibilities, especially
>>when PHP 4
>>worked so well for all these years.
>
>
> Last time this was debated here I pointed out that the upgrade from 4.x to
> 5.x will most certainly be less painful than upgrading from 4.x to 6.x (or
> 7.x, or 8.x) would be. That, in itself, is motivation to upgrade. Another
> is that as time goes on and more people make the migration, fewer people
> will be available to support 4.x.
>
> Last time this was debated, someone posted instructions on how to have BOTH
> versions on your server so that you can switch back and forth.

all good points IMHO, the 'someone' was Rasmus Lerdorf btw - worth remembering :-)

>
> JM
>

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