[Typo3-typo3org] Upgrade to 3.8.0 / PHP5

[Robert Lemke]

Hi Michael,

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 11:56, Michael Scharkow wrote:
> may I ask why TER will *require* PHP5? It has been good practice with
> TYPO3 to run in any 4+ version. In fact, I do not remember *any*
> extension that requires PHP5. Although TER may be targeted only for
> internal use, are there really strong arguments for requiring PHP5? One
> consequence I can think of is that TER 2 will not run on stock Debian
> servers (since neither Sarge nor Woody have PHP5), other obstacles may
> arise.
> Since I am not a PHP expert: Is it worth it?

Clear answer: Yes, it is definately worth it. And it won't have any bad 
side-effects on people using the TER.

All extensions I am currently creating depend on PHP5 because it has so many 
advantages. Currently we're really in trouble with the blurry API of the 
TYPO3 core due to the lack of declarations like public, protected and 
private. But of course there's much more like proper SOAP support, working 
XML parsers etc.

TYPO3 4.0 will officially work with PHP5 (and PHP4) and TYPO3 5.0 will only 
work with PHP5. For my own projects I am currently preparing transition to 
PHP5 and it works out fine until now.

robert
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Robert Lemke
Assessor - TYPO3 Association
http://association.typo3.org