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[Marko Heijnen]

If core still can work on 5.2 then that is the requirement. It’s stupid to say that it’s 5.3 when it still can run fine on 5.2.
If you only want to have WordPress doing so because you as a plugin developer using 5.3+ functionality then the issue is on you.

If you think WordPress can gain a lot of PHP 5.3 then create a repo on GitHub and start working on those improvements and see if that works out.
Personally I would hate it when WordPress would use namespaces for example. It’s ugly to look at and make it a bit harder for the average WP developer.

In the end WordPress probably would do something like a legacy version because the upgraded will then not allow you to upgrade to the next version.
We can add features but at least we can do security fixes.

Marko


Op 7 nov. 2013, om 22:02 heeft Baki Goxhaj <banago at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:

> 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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