[TYPO3-dev] PHP5.3 compatibilty for TYPO3 4.2

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi,

Francois Suter schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
>> +1 to do so. 4.2 is fully supported
> 
> Not true. The only version which receives full support is the current 
> stable, i.e. 4.3. For 4.2 this is at our discretion and would require 
> approval by Ingo (as pointed out by Dmitry).
> 
> Personally I'm not convinced that it is worth the effort, given that 
> hosters are notoriously slow to update their servers (just remember how 
> much debate it cause to drop PHP4 support). Some patches (like those 
> that changed all usages of the ereg library where far from simple and 
> cause some side-effects until everything was ironed out).
> 

it's not only a question of hosters to update because it doesn't work 
anymore, it's also a question of money, time and costs. We shouldn't be 
involved in this process, we should concentrate on deliver quality. And 
quality is als to ensure that TYPO3 is running on most servers, that 
includes servers using php5.3. And it's easy for us as we already have 
the patches.

Imho it's also dangerous to give this decision in one persons hand, i 
know that is the policy but we should have a common sense.

vg Steffen