Posted by Robert Cummings on 10/13/05 01:10

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 17:31, GamblerZG wrote:
> Since nobody ansvered the real question my previous message, I will
> re-phrase it.
>
> PHP developers assume that PHP5 will be frequently used to parse PHP4
> scripts. Why? And what's so horrible about using separate engines to run
> php 4 and 5 scripts?

You can use separate engines. The topic has been addresses many times
already. Set up a second instance of apache and use the ProxyPass system
to pass control from the primary apache server to a PHP5 enabled apache
server. Ultimately though, the answer to why people want backward
compatibility, is because they want their libraries and applications to
be available to the widest possible audience.

Cheers,
Rob.
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