[wp-hackers] PHP5 and WP Development

[Henning Seljenes]

AFAIK, oo programming isn't any faster (in fact it might be slower)
then the current method Wordpress uses. While the zend ii engine
sounds quite nice, I think it would be best for the base of wordpress
to run on php4 and if there is something really nice avaliable in
php5, the script to check which version the user is running and decide
whether or not to use that method.

-- Henning

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:02:35 -0400, Tor Bjornrud <bjornrud at msu.edu> wrote:
> Quick question...
> 
> Any policy on when, if at all, php5 dependent code will be allowed into
> the WordPress codebase?
> I presume that it wouldn't be an option for at least a year or two. If
> it is in the crystal ball, even very far away, are there plans to
> maintain two separate forks to keep php4 users happy?
> 
> I only ask, because I'm curious if devs are excited about the php5 oo
> support, and mysqli extensions that might go a long way to clean and
> speed things up with WordPress.  I'd love to see wordpress be new and
> shiny with the new php5 structures, but don't know if we have the
> resources/drive to maintain two versions for a while.  Just curious as
> to how everyone else felt.
> 
> Best,
> ~Tor
> 
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