[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #9751: Let's do not rush things for upcomming PHP minimum version PHP 5.x.y

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#9751: Let's do not rush things for upcomming PHP minimum version PHP 5.x.y
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 Reporter:  hakre         |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect (bug)  |       Status:  closed   
 Priority:  normal        |    Milestone:           
Component:  General       |      Version:           
 Severity:  normal        |   Resolution:  wontfix  
 Keywords:                |  
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Comment(by jacobsantos):

 That isn't the complete list of features. You are leaving out new classes,
 PDO (which is kick ass), SPL (which is sweet, you get Iterator,
 Directory_Iterator (which is really, really useful), Countable,
 Serializable (not sure if that is the correct interface name), etc),
 filter extension (meh, not as useful as I thought, but pretty cool,
 because you can use hooks and stuff).

 I forget, did I mention PDO, mysqli, OCI8.

 PHP 5.2 is faster than PHP4, by a small degree. PHP 5.3 is faster than
 PHP4 by a very large margin.

 I fear that when WordPress does go PHP 5. It is going to be PHP 5.1.6,
 which will suck, but I mean, you can still use PHP5.2 features, if they
 are available and just code for PHP5.1.x.

 It also sucks that PHP5.3 is going to take around two or more years before
 it is the standard for PHP5.

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