Moving to PHP5 <<<Re: [wp-hackers] GSoC Proposal: Integrate
WP-cache / WP Super Cache into WordPress
Eric Marden
wp at xentek.net
Mon Mar 3 01:12:28 GMT 2008
I thought it might be a touchy subject, and didn't mean to have it
dovetail into the GSoC discussion.
However, it seemed like a logical direction of the discussion... even
if it might have trailed off topic a bit.
PHP 5 penetration is still ongoing, with even large vendors just know
starting to support it (case in point, my dedicated server at Media
Temple just recently started offering a PHP5 version that even I have
yet to switch to).
-e
On Mar 2, 2008, at 7:15 PM, Jacob Santos wrote:
> 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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