[wp-hackers] php -v

[Baki Goxhaj]

I see some folks don't see the benefits of upgrading to 5.3, but it would
be huge architecture-wise. Thomas Scholz has summarized some of the
benefits above.

WordPress has to keep the pace with the language before it becomes to dull
to work with. The developers are one of the major factors that push
WordPress forward and I would be very vigilant to keep them happy. Staying
with 5.2 for much longer is not going to make them happy for sure.

One model of upgrading the PHP version is the jQuery model. They maintain
two versions, one that supports old browsers and one that is better,
faster, modular for the new browsers. In the case of WordPress, it would be
even more easier. Let's say, WordPress 3.9 will be the last version of
WordPress to support PHP 5.2. On the other hand, WordPress 4.0 would be
5.3. The legacy version can be maintained for a long time and updated with
little features that won't hurt. And the rest of the ecosystem will be
given a superior WordPress version that will make the folks running the old
one want to upgrade. I see this as a very good strategy to make people
upgrade their PHP version.

Thoughts?

Kindly,

Baki Goxhaj
about.me/banago


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Helen Hou-Sandi <h at hyhs.me> wrote:

> To suggestions that the admin display a warning - though it sounds nice,
> it's unlikely to be anything but unnecessarily scary for a user. It only
> helps those who know how to upgrade their PHP version, and those who know
> how to do so are rather unlikely to still be on 5.2, or 5.3 even. We can't
> put the burden of what a host uses by default for a new site on a user who
> didn't make that choice in the first place.
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