[wp-hackers] php -v

[J.D. Grimes]

I’ve often thought that the lead devs should just announce that support for 5.2 will be dropped by a certain date, and see what happens.

On Nov 7, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Justas Butkus <jbutkus at time.ly> wrote:

> 2013.11.07 18:45, Coen Jacobs rašė:
>> If you compare those two graphs it might look outdated, it is actually not.
>> The difference between the two graphs is that the one on wordpress.org is
>> the PHP version on servers running WordPress. The one you linked to is the
>> web in general.
> Is it possible that significant number of sites running PHP 5.2 are on just a few big hosting providers, who run PHP 5.2 allegedly for compatibility reasons, and receiving request from their customers would update to more up-to date versions of PHP, which would allow for them to save resources (i.e. do to more effective caching in PHP 5.5) and/or allow greater developments of the web in general?
> 
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> Regards,
> Justas Butkus
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