Posted by "Richard Lynch" on 10/13/05 20:32

On Wed, October 12, 2005 4:31 pm, 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?

Because that's how the real world works.

Somebody installs PHP5 on a server.

Somebody else installs code from PHP4 and expects it to work with
little or no modification.

> And what's so horrible about using separate engines to
> run
> php 4 and 5 scripts?

Nothing, if you can identify which are which, and have the
infrastructure to set up both and...

It's a great deal of system administration which, in most real-world
scenarios, doesn't happen.

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