[TYPO3-shop] RFC: when should tt_products be coded in PHP5 ?

[Bill Alexy]

Franz Holzinger wrote:
> Martin Kutschker a écrit :
>>> How should the coding of tt_products continue? When should be the time
>>> to make tt_products to require PHP5?
>>
>> When TYPO3 5.0 is shipping and requires PHP5.
>>
>> Of course you could make the transition earlier, but why burden your
>> users with an additional requirement?
>>
>> Is there anything you in PHP5 that you really *need* right now?
>>
> 
> Well e.g. I could transform it to use Exceptions and Interfaces already now.
> 
> So if most of the shop users have a PHP 5 installed, then we could start
> with it even before TYPO3 5.0 . Why should we wait any longer?
> 
> - Franz
> 
> 
I agree with Franz. If anyone needs to use a PHP4 version they can 
always use an earlier version of tt_products. We've already been able to 
  do things with the cart because our server supports  PHP5 that we 
wouldn't have been able to do efficiently usiing PHP4.

Regards,
Bill