[TYPO3-dev] is it time for PHP5.2.1 now?

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi Ries,

Ries van Twisk wrote:
> Because there are large companies that cannot easily switch to a newer 
> version of software XYZ.

The question is always: "why can't they switch?".
In the case of PHP4 there is also the fact that development of PHP4 has 
been dropped completely. Any security problems are simply ignored. Not 
switching to PHP5 means that you don't care much about things like security.
The most frequently given answer to the switching problem is that there 
is some legacy application which supposedly can't work with a newer 
version. There are plenty of solutions one can think of, but these cost 
money for one departement, while not moving to newer software means more 
cost for many other departements and projects.

> Not that you need to support your latest extension with a lower version 
> number, but you cannot ignore
> the fact that some companies use a strategy for updating software.

This strategy obviously has flaws :-)

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Regards, Jigal.