Moving to PHP5 <<<Re: [wp-hackers] GSoC Proposal: Integrate WP-cache / WP Super Cache into WordPress

[Jacob Santos]

I personally would not bring up the issue, because it brings out a lot. 
I would suspect that since right now, the requirements are 4.3, which 
offers a lot more functions than 4.2. I don't think that at the moment 
the debate is a bigger deal.

I have said I would bring the issue up August 8, 2008, since that is 
when PHP team is dropping security support. After that, nothing more 
will be done with PHP4 and they are going to focus on PHP5 and PHP6 
only. With that, it would make little sense to still support PHP4, even 
after the PHP team drops support. The core team might not think the same 
way and I think that the hints that there might be a switch to PHP5 from 
at least one core member.

Whether that will happen this year? Who knows. With what I want to do 
and from what the projects are, I would leave the debate out of the GSOC 
discussion. I've learned that it will happen when the core team wants it 
to happen and not any day sooner. So while I personally would like to 
see it happen, debating the issue at this point doesn't seem to be worth 
the time, since it won't go anywhere.


Aaron D. Campbell wrote:
> There has been a lot of discussion regarding changing over to PHP5, 
> especially when http://gophp5.org/ started. I believe the decision was 
> NOT to require PHP5, but was there any decision as to when the subject 
> would be re-addressed?
>
> Eric Marden wrote:
>>> Lazy Load looks interesting, but I don't know how applicable it would
>>> be to the current WP structure.
>>
>> I thought that might be the case.
>>
>>> It seems to be geared for the
>>> more-heavily object-oriented languages/projects out there where all
>>> the methods are parts of objects in the first place, and objects are
>>> embedded within objects (class members) for a fully OOP, cascaded
>>> development style.
>>
>>
>> Zend_Framework utilizes this quite a bit so I wouldn't say it is a 
>> language thing (php's OO shortcomings aside). But the concept of 
>> loading when needed, instead of all at once seems to be a good way to 
>> cut back on memory usage. The increase in performance from this, as 
>> applied to the current WP, is probably debatable, but maybe worth 
>> discussing.
>>
>>> In our case, the performance problem isn't with the objects being in
>>> the memory so much as it is the functions to get them....
>>
>> Maybe this is something that might tie in to a broader discussion of 
>> re-architecting with PHP5...?
>>
>> -e
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