Re: [phpwiki-checkins] SF.net SVN: phpwiki:[7493] trunk/lib/HtmlElement.php

2010/6/9 Marc-Etienne Vargenau <[email protected]>:
> Le 08/06/2010 17:56, Sébastien Le Callonnec a écrit :
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I don’t know if this has been discussed in the past, but as more and
>> more PHP5 stuff is likely to creep into the codebase that seemingly
>> appears to break BC, should we consider setting up a specific branch?
>>
>> The static calls of functions that are not static is causing some
>> errors, and if we want to fix them, the code will be littered with
>> hideous if (php5) ... else ...
>>
>> Also, I have an implementation of PhpWiki Web services that actually
>> work (never been able to get the one in place to work), but it uses
>> SoapServer, so this would be php5-specific.
>>
>> What’s your take on this?
>
> Hello Sébastien,
>
> I am now running Phpwiki with PHP 5.3.2.
>
> As PHP 4 is officially dead, I would be much in favor of
> requiring PHP 5 for Phpwiki 1.4.0.
>
> Reini, what is your opinion on this?

As most users still use 4.x I want it to stay php-4 compatible.
"official dead" means nothing for php. Providers are lazy.

For 5 only there are a lot of useful libs, which I cannot use.
RDF libs for the Semantic Web for example.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/           http://murbreak.at/

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